Donna Karan
A loud, fruit-saturated opening — pineapple, peach, apricot, osmanthus — that announces itself in 1992 amplitude.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Floral70
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Apricot
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readA loud, fruit-saturated opening — pineapple, peach, apricot, osmanthus — that announces itself in 1992 amplitude. There's bergamot in there too, but it's more decorative than structural; the first impression is unmistakably stone-fruit and tropical, glossy and confident.
The heart is a full white-floral bouquet — jasmine, lily, ylang, rose, heliotrope — packed dense enough to function as one continuous accord rather than discrete flowers. It's powerhouse-era construction, the kind of fragrance built to fill a restaurant.
The base is where the perfume earns its reputation: tonka, sandalwood, incense, vetiver, benzoin, amber, vanilla, suede, patchouli, musk — a balsamic, leather-tinged drydown that goes on for hours. Rich, generous, and unmistakably of its decade. Wear it confidently or not at all.
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.
