La Melodie
Black currant and pear open with a crisp, tart fruitiness that quickly meets a cool iris dusting, softening the edges without losing brightness.
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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Iris
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and pear open with a crisp, tart fruitiness that quickly meets a cool iris dusting, softening the edges without losing brightness. Jasmine and orange blossom add a white-petal creaminess that melds with the lingering iris to create a powdery floral heart, while grapefruit keeps a faint citrus shimmer alive underneath. As the fruit-floral accord settles, tonka and vanilla warm the skin, praline lends a toasted nut sweetness, and patchouli anchors the sweetness in dry cocoa earth. Oakmoss and guaiac wood tighten the base, giving the confectionary notes a restrained, woody backbone that prevents cloying. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of the day, making it office-friendly yet present. The composition reads cool-warm: bright opening, powdered heart, softly sweet dry-down, best in spring or mild fall.
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.
