El Descanso
Galbanum snaps open with a bitter-green sap that drags lemon’s zest into crushed stem territory, creating an immediate outdoors brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Yellow Floral60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Mimosa
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with a bitter-green sap that drags lemon’s zest into crushed stem territory, creating an immediate outdoors brightness. Mimosa lands softly in the heart, its fluffy pollen dust sweetening the galbanum’s resin without erasing the green edge, while cedar splinters add woody dryness underneath. Tonka and vanilla slowly warm the base, folding the green top into a creamy almond skin-scent that still carries a wisp of hay from the mimosa. The sandalwood stays quiet, mostly extending the dry-down rather than steering it, letting the tonka-vanilla tandem dominate the six-hour arc. Projection stays polite, projecting an arm-length whisper perfect for office or spring picnic. The composition keeps its leafy character even in the sweet fade, a clever trick that makes the green opening feel longer than it is.
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.
