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Gardenia and jasmine open with a lush, creamy white-floral character that feels immediately rich and narcotic.
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.
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Leather
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and jasmine open with a lush, creamy white-floral character that feels immediately rich and narcotic. Amber emerges quickly, its warm resinous quality blending with the florals to create a sweet, almost honeyed floral-amber accord. Sandalwood provides a smooth, creamy woody foundation that deepens the composition without adding sharpness. Leather appears late in the dry-down, adding a subtle, supple suede-like texture that grounds the sweetness. Vanilla and heliotrope contribute a soft, powdery sweetness that lingers close to the skin for hours. Projection is moderate initially, settling into an intimate musky trail with impressive longevity best suited for evening wear in cooler weather.
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.
