DKNY Be Tempted
The opening is a flash of crisp apple and lemon, bright and unapologetic, then quickly softens into something more complex.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lemon
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Rose
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a flash of crisp apple and lemon, bright and unapologetic, then quickly softens into something more complex. Orange blossom arrives with a soapy sweetness, flanked by violet's powdery whisper and a veil of rose that feels more synthetic than botanical. The effect is clean and modern, floral in a polished, accessible way.
As it settles, myrrh adds a resinous warmth that keeps the sweetness from tipping too girlish, while vanilla rounds the base without overwhelming it. The result is a fragrance that straddles freshness and comfort—easy to wear, unchallenging, designed for someone who wants floral without heaviness or vintage flourishes. It fades close to the skin, gentle and predictable.
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.
