Cherchez La Femme
Lemon and bergamot open clean and pithy, a typical bright citrus top with no sweetness behind it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Peony
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open clean and pithy, a typical bright citrus top with no sweetness behind it. The lift is brief; cardamom is already pulling the composition toward something warmer.
The heart is a powdery floral built on rose, peony and freesia, with cardamom holding a dry-spice line through it. Nothing here goes lush — the flowers stay cool and well-mannered, more boardroom than bedroom.
Sandalwood, guaiac and ambergris carry the drydown: creamy wood with a salty-mineral edge from the ambergris reading. The whole thing settles close to the skin, a polite floral-woody pitched at office hours and warm-cool weather alike.
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.
