Geranium
Lavender opens cool and camphoraceous, sliced by sharp lime and grapefruit that strip away any sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Herbal50
- Almond50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Heliotrope
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and camphoraceous, sliced by sharp lime and grapefruit that strip away any sweetness. Heliotrope arrives early, its powdered almond facet softening the citrus edges while orange blossom injects a clean white-floral lift. The heart stays crisp: the lavender persists, now drier, against the faintly milky heliotrope, creating an aromatic-lactonic bridge rather than a true floral center. Sandalwood and vanilla warm the base, yet the vanilla stays thin, letting musk dominate the skin-close dry-down with a clean, linen-sheet texture. Projection hovers at arm’s length for four hours, ideal for smart-casual spring offices or cool summer evenings when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
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.
