Santa Monica
Santa Monica opens with orange blossom and bergamot — creamy white floral alongside citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSanta Monica opens with orange blossom and bergamot — creamy white floral alongside citrus brightness. Neroli at the heart deepens the orange-blossom character, adding a slightly honeyed, slightly green quality that extends the floral accord without shifting its essential nature.
Tonka bean, patchouli, and musk form the base — the tonka bringing sweet warmth, the patchouli an earthy note that grounds the composition, and musk providing diffusion. Patchouli is present but not dominant, acting as a base material rather than a featured note. The overall impression is a clean, warm orange-blossom floral with a slightly earthy, sweet dry-down — pleasant and accessible for daytime use.
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.
