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 15 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Peach
- Freesia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
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.
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.
