Clean Fragrance
A citrus burst of lime and bergamot opens with surprising sharpness before settling into something softer and more approachable.
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.
- Musky75
- Citrus75
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Orange Blossom
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Lily
By the editors · 2 min readA citrus burst of lime and bergamot opens with surprising sharpness before settling into something softer and more approachable. The name telegraphs the intent: this is scrubbed skin, laundered cotton, the memory of soap rather than soap itself. Orange blossom adds a faint bitterness that keeps the opening from tipping into pure sweetness.
The heart brings a parade of white florals—jasmine, lily, violet, rose—but rendered in pastel rather than oil paint. They overlap without much distinction, creating a gauzy floral veil rather than individual blooms. Lavender hints at traditional cologne structure, though it's muted here, more suggestion than statement.
White musk and heliotrope anchor the base with that characteristic early-2000s clean-fragrance softness: powdery, diffuse, engineered for inoffensiveness. This wears close to the skin and fades politely. It found an audience precisely because it avoids complexity, offering instead a quiet, familiar comfort that asks nothing of the wearer or those nearby.
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.
