C for Women
C for Women announces itself with the quiet authority Clive Christian's compositions favor: petitgrain provides a cool, slightly bitter green lift, bergamot adds citrus brightness, and narcissus — rarely used in modern perfumery — contributes a cold, slightly narcotic green-floral note that sets an unusual introductory tone before the main event.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 22 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.
- Tuberose70
- Floral65
- Rose55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Incense
- Leather
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readC for Women announces itself with the quiet authority Clive Christian's compositions favor: petitgrain provides a cool, slightly bitter green lift, bergamot adds citrus brightness, and narcissus — rarely used in modern perfumery — contributes a cold, slightly narcotic green-floral note that sets an unusual introductory tone before the main event.
The heart is magnificent and unapologetic: tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, violet, orange blossom, and osmanthus arrive together as a vast layered bouquet, anchored and given gravity by incense, leather, and patchouli. This is the grand oriental floral tradition — not a single bloom but an entire garden staged for evening. The incense and leather prevent sweetness from dominating and give the florals their backbone.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, vetiver, amber, and vanilla form a rich, multidimensional base built to sustain the weight above. C for Women is built for those who want fragrance to be an occasion.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
