Magnolia
Lemon and bergamot open with a brisk citrus snap that quickly folds into the creamy magnolia heart, the flower’s lemon-peel edge amplifying the top while jasmine adds buttery depth and rose contributes a soft powdery lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a brisk citrus snap that quickly folds into the creamy magnolia heart, the flower’s lemon-peel edge amplifying the top while jasmine adds buttery depth and rose contributes a soft powdery lift. Sandalwood arrives early, threading a dry blond wood through the florals so the bouquet never turns syrupy, while vetiver keeps the spine taut with cool, rooty smoke. In the dry-down, vanilla’s light custard sweetness meets patchouli’s cocoa-earth, turning the base into a muted amber glow that hugs skin rather than projects. Projection stays polite, a low waft within arm’s length, ideal for office days or spring brunches when heat might exaggerate louder white florals. Eight-hour longevity on fabric, closer to five on skin, with the final hour a skin-scent wash of sandalwood and powdered vanilla.
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.
