Diamonds and Rubies
A peachy-floral opulence opens with overripe fruit and powder-dusted lily, the kind of lushness that defined early nineties femininity.
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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Vanilla45
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Peach
- Peach
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readA peachy-floral opulence opens with overripe fruit and powder-dusted lily, the kind of lushness that defined early nineties femininity. The sweetness is unabashed—heliotrope and vanilla create an almond-marzipan softness that some will find comforting, others cloying. Ylang-ylang and jasmine add a creamy white-floral backdrop, but they're supporting players to the peachy-vanillic heart.
The drydown settles into amber and sandalwood with benzoin's resinous warmth, though the vanilla never quite recedes. The overall effect is round, sweet, and tenacious—imagine velvet upholstery in a boudoir, or the scent memory of a grandmother's dressing table. It lacks the restraint of modern taste but carries a certain nostalgic sincerity.
Best suited to those who appreciate unashamedly sweet florals and aren't afraid of projection. This is perfume as declaration, not whisper.
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.
