Sensational
Sensational belongs to a very specific moment — the late-2000s celebrity fragrance peak — and wears that heritage without apology.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pear
- Plum
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readSensational belongs to a very specific moment — the late-2000s celebrity fragrance peak — and wears that heritage without apology. Apple, pear, and plum open sweetly, almost sparklingly, before a lush heart of jasmine, lily of the valley, freesia, mimosa, violet, and rose arrives in a breathless rush. The base is minimal but effective: amber and clean musk anchor the florals without dragging them toward heaviness. This is a well-executed example of the genre: the fruit is crisp rather than cloying, the flowers are light rather than indolic, and the entire thing smells cheerful, feminine, and surprisingly wearable two decades on. A warm-light floral done right.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
