th Avenue Elizabeth Arden 1996 Eau de Parfum
Magnolia and lily of the valley open the perfume bright and dewy, with bergamot pulling them slightly tarter — a familiar department-store overture, polished.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose60
- Woody60
- Amber55
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Lilac
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia and lily of the valley open the perfume bright and dewy, with bergamot pulling them slightly tarter — a familiar department-store overture, polished.
The heart is where the perfume earns its volume. Bulgarian rose and jasmine sit on a bed of ylang-ylang, with peach softening the edges and clove, nutmeg, and violet adding a faintly old-world spice. The combination is plush and generously dosed — the kind of middle that fills a room when someone enters.
The base is sandalwood and amber sweetened with vanilla, with iris adding a powdery hush underneath. It dries down warm and slightly cosmetic, lipstick-adjacent. A 1990s big-floral built for evenings that called for a coat and an opinion.
Scent twins
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