Gardenia Garden Eau Poudree
Bergamot and violet open with a bergamot-led citrus brightness alongside violet's cool, slightly powdery presence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Violet60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and violet open with a bergamot-led citrus brightness alongside violet's cool, slightly powdery presence. The opening is clean and slightly aldehydic in character — polished rather than sharp. Heliotrope in the base reinforces the powdery quality with its almond-vanilla facet, while ambergris adds a warm, skin-like softness.
Musk ties everything into a close, powdery dry-down that is gentle and refined. The composition reads as a soft powdery floral — vintage in sensibility, intimate in projection. The interplay between violet, heliotrope, and ambergris gives it a feminine, retro character that suits formal or intimate occasions.
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.