L'Inspiratrice
Opens with a creamy-bright trio: ylang-ylang's banana-spice warmth laid against bergamot and rose, the rose already prominent at the top rather than waiting for the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aldehydic85
- Rose65
- Floral60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Rose
- White Musk
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a creamy-bright trio: ylang-ylang's banana-spice warmth laid against bergamot and rose, the rose already prominent at the top rather than waiting for the heart. The first minutes have an aldehydic shimmer that pulls toward classic floral construction.
The heart amplifies the rose. White musk adds a clean cottony cushion while peony brings a watery petal-paper lift and rose continues to dominate. The middle reads as a feminine floral with quiet polish — neither dewy-fresh nor narcotic, sitting comfortably between.
Drydown softens onto tonka, vetiver, vanilla, and patchouli. Tonka and vanilla pour warm sweetness, vetiver and patchouli add quiet earthy support. The aldehydic-floral over a sweet-earthy base reads as updated retro elegance, built for evening wear with restraint.
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.
