Debut de Carmel
Opens with heliotrope's almond-cherry powder, lily of the valley's clean petal, and violet's sugared dust — a soft, slightly old-fashioned floral top that reads immediately powdered and gentle.
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
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with heliotrope's almond-cherry powder, lily of the valley's clean petal, and violet's sugared dust — a soft, slightly old-fashioned floral top that reads immediately powdered and gentle.
The heart blooms into a full-bouquet feminine middle: gardenia and jasmine providing creamy white-floral lushness, peony adding airy translucence, and rose contributing powdered jam. The florals layer rather than compete, holding a single soft chord.
Apricot surfaces in the base with soft fuzzy fruit warmth, and musk closes the drydown with a quiet skin softness. The finish reads as a powdered floral with a faint fruit undertone — comforting, restrained, slightly retro in its bouquet construction. Projection sits intimate; longevity moderate. Overall a feminine composition that values softness and roundness over presence.
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.
