Instance
Instance opens on a soft fruity blush — pear and raspberry together, sweet but without weight, a clean glossy first impression.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readInstance opens on a soft fruity blush — pear and raspberry together, sweet but without weight, a clean glossy first impression.
The heart turns pale-floral. Jasmine carries the body, freesia adds a wateriness, and a touch of plum drops the fruit one octave lower so the flowers don't read as juvenile. It is polite, pretty, and intentional in scope.
The drydown is short and soft — sandalwood smoothed by vanilla into a light, skin-close finish. The whole composition wears intimate and uncomplicated, the kind of feminine signature designed to be agreeable rather than memorable.
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.
