Versailles 1780
Versailles 1780 opens with almond, bergamot, and violet — an unusual top-note almond that immediately signals gourmand-adjacent territory even before the floral notes arrive.
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.
- Nutty70
- Almond50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Peach
- Rose
- Raspberry
By the editors · 2 min readVersailles 1780 opens with almond, bergamot, and violet — an unusual top-note almond that immediately signals gourmand-adjacent territory even before the floral notes arrive. The bergamot provides brightness; the violet adds powdery lift.
Peach and rose in the heart soften the almond into something more conventional — a fruity floral that reads accessible and slightly retro. Raspberry in the base is an interesting reversal: fruit arriving after florals rather than before, adding a tart brightness to the drydown. Benzoin and musk complete the base with warm, resinous sweetness. The almond prior is dominant, confirming this as almond-led throughout — every phase reads through that lens. A sweet, slightly nostalgic composition.
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.
