Vivara (1965)
Galbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that bleeds chlorophyll over bergamot's bright oil.
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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that bleeds chlorophyll over bergamot's bright oil. Within minutes the galbanum softens, letting peach fuzz swell while jasmine and ylang-ylang pump buttery yellow pollen into the cut. Rose and lily-of-the-valley arrive cooler, trimming the fruit until a dry leather strap cinches the waist. That leather pulls the florals taut, stretching them across sandalwood cream that has been smoked with olibanum and patchouli dust. Benzoin and amber ooze late, turning the hide suppleid, yet vetiver keeps the base angular so the composition never collapses into dessert. Projection stays polite, a two-foot veil that lasts six hours on fabric; best worn with linen in Mediterranean spring evenings when heat can coax the peach without letting the galbanum screech.
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.
