Belle de Grasse
Bergamot and a green violet-leaf snap open the bottle — bright, slightly bitter, very southern-French.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Mimosa
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and a green violet-leaf snap open the bottle — bright, slightly bitter, very southern-French. The transition is fast: orange blossom and mimosa take over before the citrus has time to fade.
The heart is the centerpiece, a sunlit floral with mimosa's powdery yellow softness against orange blossom's honeyed white. It reads pretty without being heavy, more village garden than couture floral.
Heliotrope adds an almond-vanillic warmth in the dry-down, and clean musk extends it lightly. A daytime spring fragrance — easy, unfussy, the sort of thing that flatters more than it impresses.
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.
