Etoile
Étoile opens with a bright ginger-citrus shimmer that feels like late-morning sunlight—warm but not heavy, spiced but not sharp.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readÉtoile opens with a bright ginger-citrus shimmer that feels like late-morning sunlight—warm but not heavy, spiced but not sharp. The apple note, though unlisted in the traditional pyramid, adds a subtle fruited transparency that keeps the opening from leaning too classical. As it settles, gardenia takes center stage with jasmine and lily of the valley orbiting quietly around it, creating a white floral accord that remains airy rather than indolic.
The drydown brings amber and cedar into soft focus, grounding the florals without smothering them. The musk here is clean and skin-close, more whisper than projection. The overall effect is polished and gentle—a white floral with just enough ginger brightness to distinguish it from conventional springtime compositions.
Étoile suits someone looking for approachable elegance without drama. It occupies that specific territory between fresh and warm, floral and woody, making it versatile for daytime wear across seasons.
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.
