Christian Lacroix
The opening is a peculiar collision: peach's soft fuzz meets tarragon's anise-green bite, with freesia floating between them like a pale thread.
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.
- Tonka40
- Vanilla35
- Jasmine30
- Iris Powder30
- Sandalwood25
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a peculiar collision: peach's soft fuzz meets tarragon's anise-green bite, with freesia floating between them like a pale thread. It's an odd greeting that somehow works, immediately signaling this isn't another safe floral.
The heart blooms into creamy white flowers—jasmine and ylang-ylang thickened by heliotrope's almond-powder sweetness and lily of the valley's clean green bells. There's a nostalgic quality here, reminiscent of late-nineties femininity but less cloying than many contemporaries.
As it settles, tonka bean and vanilla wrap around sandalwood and benzoin, creating a warm, slightly powdery base that feels more comforting than seductive. This is a fragrance that lingers close, unapologetically feminine in the classical sense, suited to someone who appreciates softness without demanding edge or irony from their scent.
