Da Vinci
Heliotrope opens with a soft, powdery sweetness reminiscent of almond and vanilla, creating an immediate intimate aura.
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.
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Myrrh
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with a soft, powdery sweetness reminiscent of almond and vanilla, creating an immediate intimate aura. Myrrh develops gradually, introducing a resinous and slightly medicinal depth that contrasts with the initial powderiness. Tonka bean amplifies the sweetness with its coumarin richness while musk provides a clean, skin-like base that anchors the composition. The scent remains close to the skin throughout its wear, evolving linearly from powdery to resinous without significant projection shifts. Longevity is moderate, lasting four to six hours as a personal scent rather than a room-filling presence. Ideal for cooler days and indoor occasions where its subtlety feels appropriate.
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.
