Marseille
Marseille opens on an unmistakable soapy freshness—neroli and orange layered over a traditional Savon de Marseille accord.
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.
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange
- Soap Accord
- Lychee
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readMarseille opens on an unmistakable soapy freshness—neroli and orange layered over a traditional Savon de Marseille accord. This is not a scrubbed aquatic but something warmer: the specific scent of cold-process olive-oil soap left on a warm bathroom shelf, slightly waxy and faintly floral.
Rose arrives in the heart with a slight lychee facet that adds a sweetly fruited dimension without tilting the composition into gourmand territory. The soap accord softens here, becoming less utilitarian and more inhabited.
Amber and a smooth musk hold the dry-down in a close, powdery warmth. Conceived by Quentin Bisch as a tribute to Marseille's centuries-old soap tradition. Wears skin-close; strongest in the first thirty minutes, intimate thereafter.
Scent twins
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