French Style
Narcissus dominates from the first spray, releasing a waxy yellow-floral pollen dust that smells like daffodil stems crushed between fingers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Narcissus
- Vanilla
- Cashmeran
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readNarcissus dominates from the first spray, releasing a waxy yellow-floral pollen dust that smells like daffodil stems crushed between fingers. This slightly bitter bloom lands on a cushion of cashmeran, whose dry wood-fiber facet stretches the floral into something crisp and paper-thin. Vanilla arrives minutes later, not syrupy but powdered, tempering the flower’s vegetal edge while keeping it luminous rather than sweet. Musk settles underneath as a clean skin-scent whisper, extending the pale composition for hours without adding warmth. The result feels like wearing a starched white cotton shirt in spring: cool, sunlit, quietly insistent. Projection stays within arm’s length; perfect for office days when you want presence without announcement.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
