Rives
Rives starts with petitgrain and neroli — a clean, slightly woody citrus opening that has a faint bitterness rather than sweetness.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Lavender
- Orange Blossom
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readRives starts with petitgrain and neroli — a clean, slightly woody citrus opening that has a faint bitterness rather than sweetness. It reads fresh without reaching for aquatic territory.
Lavender and orange blossom form the core, a familiar pairing that stays aromatic and gently floral. The lavender is more herbal than spa-soft, giving the heart some backbone against the white-floral sweetness of the orange blossom.
Suede in the base grounds the composition with a dry, skin-close warmth that prevents the whole from floating away entirely. This is a light, undemanding fragrance — low projection, suited to close quarters. Works across most casual contexts in temperate weather.
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.
