Cassis, Rose & Sandalwood
Lemon opens bright and zesty, immediately softened by osmanthus’s apricot-leather nuance that blurs the citrus edge.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Osmanthus
- Peony
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens bright and zesty, immediately softened by osmanthus’s apricot-leather nuance that blurs the citrus edge. Peony steps in next, adding a clean, slightly green floral wateriness that lifts the composition before rose folds in a silky, petal-cream texture. Sandalwood dominates the dry-down, its creamy wood lactones catching the vanilla’s soft caramel and the amber’s resinous glow while musk sheathes everything in skin-warmth. The rose never fully departs; instead it sinks into the sandalwood-vanilla accord, turning the base faintly powdery and intimate. Projection stays polite, a low-hum aura perfect for office or spring brunch, fading to a woody-vanilla skin-scent after five hours. Overall a gentle, sunlit floral woods framed by citrus sparkle and musk haze.
Scent twins
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