Blanc de
Courrèges has always operated at the intersection of minimalism and modernity, and Blanc de Courrèges translates that visual vocabulary into fragrance.
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.
- Iris70
- Powdery65
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Lychee
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCourrèges has always operated at the intersection of minimalism and modernity, and Blanc de Courrèges translates that visual vocabulary into fragrance. A single note of pink pepper opens with clean spice and slight warmth before the composition settles into its core: heliotrope's sweet almond-powder alongside iris's cool, rooty depth. These two notes are well-matched — heliotrope's sweetness softens iris's austerity; iris's powder extends heliotrope's warmth into something more structured.
The base is spare and well-chosen: white musk and orris extend the iris accord's powdery coolness, and patchouli provides just enough earthy depth to prevent the composition from reading as purely abstract. This is a fragrance that rewards those who appreciate minimalism as an aesthetic stance rather than a budget constraint. The iris-heliotrope pairing is the whole point, and it's executed with precision. Suits cool weather and daytime occasions where something quietly refined is the appropriate register.
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.
