No. 1
The opening is a luxuriant fruit basket, heavy on ripe pineapple and plum, warmed by cardamom and nutmeg.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Sandalwood70
- Vanilla60
- Tonka55
- Amber55
- Jasmine50
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a luxuriant fruit basket, heavy on ripe pineapple and plum, warmed by cardamom and nutmeg. It's opulent without being sweet, the citrus notes offering just enough brightness to keep the richness from becoming cloying. This is not the clean, aquatic fruitiness of modern launches—it's denser, more textured, closer to candied fruit than fresh.
As it settles, a procession of white flowers emerges: jasmine and ylang-ylang at the center, supported by iris and rose. The florals are full-bodied but never shrill, blending into a smooth, creamy middle rather than standing apart as individual notes. Heliotrope adds an almond-like softness that bridges the fruit and flowers.
The base is where it finds its weight—sandalwood, vanilla, and amber create a warm, skin-close finish that leans feminine but not exclusively so. This is a perfume for someone comfortable with abundance, who doesn't mind smelling expensive and knows the difference between richness and excess.
