Spring 23
Lily of the Valley opens cool and green, its bell-shaped petals rendered as crisp, watery aldehydes that feel like morning dew.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender80
- Iris70
- Green60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Oakmoss
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the Valley opens cool and green, its bell-shaped petals rendered as crisp, watery aldehydes that feel like morning dew. Iris follows immediately, dusting the greenery with a cool, carrot-seed powder that softens the sharp edges. Basil and bergamot land in the heart, the herb’s anisic lift cutting through the iris chalk while the citrus adds fleeting sparkle; oakmoss creeps underneath, turning the composition matte and softly bitter. Lavender dominates the dry-down, its clean camphor folding into a dry Virginia cedar frame, while a measured dose of oud supplies a quiet, medicinal smokiness that keeps the flowers from turning sweet. Ylang-ylang flashes only briefly, lending a touch of custard warmth before the wood and moss lock the scent into a cool, shaded forest floor. Projection stays close arm-length for six hours, ideal for spring offices or rainy weekend walks.
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.