Belle de Nuit
Belle-de-Nuit opens with gardenia's creamy opacity softened by ylang-ylang's banana-like sweetness, creating an immediate sense of nocturnal florals just beginning to release their scent into warm air.
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.
- Rose70
- Powdery70
- Tuberose60
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBelle-de-Nuit opens with gardenia's creamy opacity softened by ylang-ylang's banana-like sweetness, creating an immediate sense of nocturnal florals just beginning to release their scent into warm air. The effect is generous without being heavy, like standing near a flowering shrub after sunset.
As it settles, violet and rose emerge with a cooler, more powdery quality that tempers the tropical richness of the opening. The rose reads as petals rather than essential oil—soft, slightly dusty, the way cut flowers smell in a dim room. Violet adds its characteristic iris-like dryness, pulling the composition away from pure exoticism toward something more introspective.
The base is a clean skin musk that simply holds everything in place without adding character of its own. This is florals for evening, suited to someone who wants presence without projection—the fragrance equivalent of candlelight rather than chandelier.
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.
