This July Evening
Bergamot and lemon open with bright, clean immediacy, the citrus cut quickly softened by anise lending a faintly licorice-sweet 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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Citrus60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon open with bright, clean immediacy, the citrus cut quickly softened by anise lending a faintly licorice-sweet edge. Jasmine and mimosa arrive without fanfare — honeyed but not heavy, the mimosa adding a slightly powdery, almond-like warmth that keeps things grounded.
Vanilla and pink pepper work together in the dry-down, the pepper preventing the vanilla from tipping sweet, instead giving the whole composition a gentle, lingering warmth. The result is a fragrance that feels like late summer light — luminous, unhurried, and approachable without being simple.
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.
