Knowing Estēe Lauder 1988 Eau de Parfum
An '80s floral chypre at full posture.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Tuberose70
- Mossy70
- Patchouli70
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Plum
- Mimosa
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readAn '80s floral chypre at full posture. Tuberose, rose and mimosa lead with a plum-tinged ripeness — fleshy, slightly jammy, never quite sweet. The opening leans dense from the first minute and only deepens as jasmine and orange blossom bring the heart into a single warm-floral chord.
Patchouli arrives early and stays through the dry, anchored against oakmoss, vetiver and a soft sandalwood-amber base. The drydown is the classic chypre move: an earthy, slightly bitter green warmth that holds for hours. It's a closer-cut, deliberately serious fragrance — best in cool weather, evenings, and on skin that wants gravity rather than sparkle.
Scent twins
In this family
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