En Passant
En Passant opens with a burst of green so vivid it feels plucked from a Parisian garden in late spring—lilac petals caught mid-bloom, dewy and slightly astringent.
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.
- Musky65
- Green55
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readEn Passant opens with a burst of green so vivid it feels plucked from a Parisian garden in late spring—lilac petals caught mid-bloom, dewy and slightly astringent. The petitgrain lends a crisp, almost metallic brightness, like sunlight on wet leaves, while the musk underneath keeps everything close to the skin rather than projecting outward. It's fleeting by design, the way scent memory works when you pass a flowering hedge on your morning walk.
As it settles, the sharpness softens into something gauzy and intimate, a whisper of white flowers without the heaviness that usually accompanies them. The lilac never turns soapy or nostalgic; it stays modern, almost photographic in its clarity.
This is for those who prefer fragrance as punctuation rather than statement—something fresh but not clean, delicate but unsentimental. It wears like a linen shirt in good light.
Scent twins
In this family
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