The Lover's Tale
The Lover's Tale is Francesca Bianchi at her most unabashed — a dense, honeyed animalic fragrance built on tobacco, leather, and a sweet resinous core that verges on decadent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Leather85
- Honey70
- Amber70
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Orris
- Bulgarian Rose
- Heliotrope
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readThe Lover's Tale is Francesca Bianchi at her most unabashed — a dense, honeyed animalic fragrance built on tobacco, leather, and a sweet resinous core that verges on decadent. The opening is warm and slightly boozy, carnation and saffron under a rum-and-honey accord.
The heart deepens into jasmine absolute and rose, both the kind of indolic white-floral work that Bianchi signs. The base is labdanum, benzoin, castoreum, and a dirty-musk drydown that lasts a full day. Projection is strong; this is not a quiet fragrance. Meant for cold evenings, intimate settings, and wearers who prefer their perfumes to be unmistakable. A niche fragrance that delivers on its name.
Scent twins
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