The Afternoon
The Afternoon opens with mimosa and violet together—a duo that immediately establishes a soft, powdery floral register.
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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mimosa
- Violet
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe Afternoon opens with mimosa and violet together—a duo that immediately establishes a soft, powdery floral register. The mimosa brings honeyed yellow floral warmth; the violet cools and adds a slightly melancholic edge.
Heliotrope and lily of the valley join in the heart, with heliotrope's almond-powder quality deepening the softness established by the opening, and lily of the valley adding delicate green freshness.
Sandalwood and iris complete the base, lending quiet woody warmth and additional root powder. The whole composition reads as a cohesive powdery-floral—gentle, introspective, and skin-close. Well-suited to quiet indoor moments or cool spring days.
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.
