Chanson de Vie
Yuzu opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into bergamot's softer, peppery sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readYuzu opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into bergamot's softer, peppery sparkle. Lily and lily-of-the-valley step forward within minutes, their cool green-white petals muffling the fruit and turning the accord crisp rather than sweet; freesia adds a faint watery shimmer that keeps the heart airy. Peach sits low in the heart, quietly supplying a velvety skin-like warmth that prevents the bouquet from turning soap-clean. As the florals settle, sandalwood emerges in thin, creamy sheets, trading citrus radiance for a blond-wood hum cleaned by a light white musk. Projection stays polite, a handshake’s reach for roughly five hours before it clings as a clean-powdery wood. Office-friendly across spring and summer meetings, yet soft enough for close-quarter travel.
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.
