White Linen Estēe Lauder 1978 Parfum
Bulgarian rose opens full and honeyy, immediately setting a plush white-floral tone that jasmine amplifies while lily-of-the-valley injects a cool, dewy edge.
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.
- Mossy90
- Violet80
- Floral70
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose opens full and honeyy, immediately setting a plush white-floral tone that jasmine amplifies while lily-of-the-valley injects a cool, dewy edge. Within minutes violet lands in the heart, its powdery iris facet softening the rose's richness and steering the bouquet toward a slightly retro cosmetic violet-iris accord. The base creeps in early: oakmoss lays down a dry, slightly bitter green carpet, vetiver adds stalky smoke, and ambergris supplies a muted, salty glow that keeps the flowers from turning sugary. As skin heat builds, the moss-vetiver axis dominates, letting only a translucent rose-violet shimmer hover above a cool, chypre-style bed. Projection sits at polite arm's length for the first three hours, then relaxes to a clean linen aura perfect for office or spring brunch. Complexity is moderate; the fragrance moves in two clear stages rather than a slow fade.
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.
