Fleur d'Oranger
Fragonard's Fleur d'Oranger opens in the manner of Grasse at midday — orange blossom in its fullest expression, simultaneously sweet and faintly medicinal, waxy and solar.
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.
- Honey50
- Orange50
- Jasmine40
- Musk40
- Bergamot30
By the editors · 2 min readFragonard's Fleur d'Oranger opens in the manner of Grasse at midday — orange blossom in its fullest expression, simultaneously sweet and faintly medicinal, waxy and solar. Neroli arrives quickly alongside, lending a more austere, slightly bitter dimension that keeps the composition from tipping into sweetness. Bergamot and mandarin orange remain subordinate — a citrus lift rather than a featured character. The honey base is the composition's defining choice: measured, beeswax-warm rather than sweet, completing the traditional Provence interpretation of the note. Musk extends the trail without intruding. A faithful, well-crafted rendering of a single flower, exactly as that flower smells in the region where it grows.
