No. 89 Floris 1951 Eau de Toilette
A traditional English aromatic-floral cologne — lavender and neroli over orange and bergamot, with nutmeg adding an unexpected warmth to what would otherwise be a strictly dry opening.
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.
- Lavender60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readA traditional English aromatic-floral cologne — lavender and neroli over orange and bergamot, with nutmeg adding an unexpected warmth to what would otherwise be a strictly dry opening. The herbal-citrus framework is mid-century by design.
A short heart of ylang-ylang and rose softens the top before the dry-down resolves into sandalwood, oakmoss, vetiver and musk. The base is where the piece earns its character: bone-dry, faintly bitter from the moss, the wood lending a polished rather than rough finish. It projects moderately, lasts a respectable workday, and reads as deliberately conservative — a fragrance for a buttoned shirt and a room with leather chairs.
Scent twins
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