Kaprīze (Caprice)
Apple opens crisp and slightly tart, cutting through the green-white scent of lily-of-the-valley to create a cool, dewy top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lily of the Valley
- Mimosa
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readApple opens crisp and slightly tart, cutting through the green-white scent of lily-of-the-valley to create a cool, dewy top. Mimosa adds a soft, pollen-sweet yellow edge that bridges into a heart where jasmine’s indolic creaminess dominates, its petals folded around a quiet, soap-tinged rose. As the florals settle, sandalwood steps forward with dry, milky wood that absorbs the earlier fruit and petal sugars, while vanilla and a touch of ambergris lend a skin-warm, faintly salty glow that lasts. The fragrance stays close, projecting no more than forearm distance for four-to-five hours, making it office-safe. Spring mornings and early-fall afternoons fit best; wear it to work or a weekend brunch when you want clean florals without loud sillage.
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.
