The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Musky85
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMiss Dior Chérie Blooming Bouquet opens with a bright whisper of spring petals, less sweet than its predecessor, more airy. The composition revolves around peony in its palest pink incarnation—not the waxy, full-blown variety, but the translucent petals caught in morning light. There's a gauzy quality here, deliberately soft, as if the perfume wanted to be noticed only at close range.
The musk in the base doesn't anchor so much as soften further, creating a barely-there veil that hovers rather than clings. This is fragrance as gentle suggestion, the sort worn by someone who wants scent to feel like second skin rather than statement. It skews young without being juvenile, delicate without disappearing entirely.
What's missing is complexity or evolution—it maintains its pastel register from first spray to fadeout. Best suited to those who find most florals too loud or too literal, preferring instead something that reads as "freshly bathed" rather than "wearing perfume."
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.