IV: L'Heure Fougueuse
Magnolia and bergamot form a cool, waxy citrus-floral opening that feels like chilled lemon peel wrapped around creamy petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender90
- Aromatic70
- Floral60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- White Musk
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia and bergamot form a cool, waxy citrus-floral opening that feels like chilled lemon peel wrapped around creamy petals. Lavender and vetiver arrive within minutes, swapping the initial brightness for a crisp, slightly bitter green-herbal core where the lavender’s camphor lifts the vetiver’s earthy stalks. White musk creeps in early, sheening the greens with a laundry-fresh soap film, while oakmoss slowly darkens the base into a quiet mossy suede. Leather is dosed as a soft calfskin accent rather than a smoky cloak, so the dry-down stays polite: clean musky woods flecked with dry moss and a hint of suede. Projection remains office-close; it thrives in spring breezes or air-conditioned summer days when you want lavender without the barbershop cliché.
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.
