№ 68 New York
Lily of the valley snaps open with a cool green bell-ringing clarity that feels like crushed stems in morning dew.
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.
- Floral80
- Fresh60
- White Floral50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Rose
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the valley snaps open with a cool green bell-ringing clarity that feels like crushed stems in morning dew. Within minutes the peony arrives, adding a watery pink softness that blunts the lily's metallic edge while letting the rose bloom underneath as a sheer petal wash rather than a statement flower. The three florals fuse into one clean breeze accord, kept airborne by a feather-light white musk that never turns soapy or sweet. Development is nearly horizontal: what changes is radiance, not structure, as the opening dew simply dries to a soft cotton skin scent. Projection stays polite, extending only to handshake distance for about four hours before settling into a fresh-laundered shirt whisper. Office-safe year-round, it excels in spring humidity where the green lily flash can cut through moisture without feeling heavy.
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.
