Allégresse
Allégresse opens green and dewy — petitgrain pulls bergamot toward bitter foliage rather than shine, and a snap of black currant bud sharpens the freshness with a vegetal edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Hyacinth
- Petitgrain
- Tuberose
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readAllégresse opens green and dewy — petitgrain pulls bergamot toward bitter foliage rather than shine, and a snap of black currant bud sharpens the freshness with a vegetal edge. The scent reads less like cologne than like the underside of a leaf still wet from morning.
Hyacinth dominates the heart, sappy and faintly metallic, with tuberose held back to a clean murmur — none of the carnal heaviness the flower usually announces. The composition stays cool and upright through its development, gaining quiet rather than drama.
This is a daylight floral for someone who finds tuberose perfumes oppressive: a way to wear white flowers without the gardenia-banana cloud. Office-safe, spring-leaning, and over by lunch.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
