L'Orientale 2021
Pomegranate opens with a tart, ruby-red splash that lands halfway between cranberry and cherry, immediately announcing a bright, juicy-fruity character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Fruity80
- Floral60
- Sweet40
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPomegranate opens with a tart, ruby-red splash that lands halfway between cranberry and cherry, immediately announcing a bright, juicy-fruity character. Jasmine and peony arrive within minutes, the jasmine adding a clean white-petal creaminess that softens the fruit’s bite while peony keeps the heart airy and translucent rather than syrupy. As the skin warms, the pomegranate’s sharpness recedes and the florals turn faintly powdery, letting the tonka bean base emerge with a light almond-vanilla glaze that smooths edges without adding heavy sweetness. The dry-down stays close, a pale pink musk tinted by leftover fruit sugars and a whisper of coumarin. Projection remains arm-length for about three hours, making it an easy post-shower spritz for warm spring weekends or carefree summer errands.
Scent twins
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