Pretty Hot
Apple and blood orange open with a juicy, almost candied splash — freesia adds the soapy floral lift that keeps the fruit from going gummy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Sweet55
- Fruity55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Blood Orange
- Freesia
- Peony
- Virginia Cedar
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readApple and blood orange open with a juicy, almost candied splash — freesia adds the soapy floral lift that keeps the fruit from going gummy.
Peony rounds the heart into something soft and pink, while a thread of Virginia cedar threads through it: dry, sharpened, faintly pencil-shaving. The pairing is the perfume's small twist — most fruity florals don't pull this much wood into the middle, and it keeps the composition from reading too sweet.
The base does the expected work: tonka and sandalwood lend a creamy warmth, amber and patchouli press it darker, musk sands the edges. Wearable in the way department-store florals tend to be — easy, recognizable, comfortable on a date or a weekend.
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.