Belle De Jour
Belle De Jour opens with ripe pear and raspberry, a straightforwardly inviting fruity prelude before the heart reveals rose, jasmine, and violet in soft focus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rose70
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Sugar
- Pear
- Powdery Notes
- Raspberry
- Balsamic Notes
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Rose Oxide
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBelle De Jour opens with ripe pear and raspberry, a straightforwardly inviting fruity prelude before the heart reveals rose, jasmine, and violet in soft focus. Rose oxide adds a subtle metallic quality that lifts the florals away from straightforward sweetness, while benzoin in the base introduces warm balsamic depth that reads powdery and close to the skin.
The overall effect is delicate and undemanding — a fragrance that functions at close range, suited to those who prefer their scent to remain a private communication rather than an announcement. The name fits: daytime, luminous without being sheer, unhurried in the way it moves from fruit to flower to warmth.
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.
