Beau Monde
An overstuffed composition that opens with citrus and ginger — lime, orange and bergamot stacked over a dry ginger zing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lime
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Sage
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readAn overstuffed composition that opens with citrus and ginger — lime, orange and bergamot stacked over a dry ginger zing. The top is busy but legible, sharp and warm at once.
The heart is where everything happens: gardenia and rose pull creamy-floral, saffron and pink pepper press spice in from the side, sage and vetiver add a dry herbal-grassy layer, and a faint vanilla hum sweetens the seam between them. It refuses to commit to a single direction — floral, spicy, herbal all at once.
Tonka, sandalwood, amber and musk tie the drydown into something soft and resinous-sweet. The overall character is plush and ambitious; built for cool-weather evenings where the layered heart has time to unfold.
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.
