Rimbaud
Neroli opens cool and bittersweet, with the green metallic edge of orange blossom petal rather than the indolic warmth of the flower.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Lactonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orris
- Lavender
- Iris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens cool and bittersweet, with the green metallic edge of orange blossom petal rather than the indolic warmth of the flower. It feels brushed in rather than perfumed.
The heart shifts quickly into orris and iris — that distinctive carrot-and-suede powder layered with a soft lavender thread. The lavender here reads dry and aromatic, not herbal, and ties the iris to a faint vegetal coolness that keeps the powder from feeling dusty.
The drydown leans on vanilla, but a discreet, almost waxy version that reads more like skin than dessert. The overall impression is restrained and polished, a minimalist elegance that feels gallery-quiet — close to the body, slow to evolve, well-suited to cooler months and unhurried occasions.
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.
