Bolero
Bolero opens in the heart with gardenia, rose, and violet arriving together, the violet lending a dry, slightly powdery note that keeps the arrangement from reading purely sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Peach
- Violet
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBolero opens in the heart with gardenia, rose, and violet arriving together, the violet lending a dry, slightly powdery note that keeps the arrangement from reading purely sweet. Peach sits alongside, adding a soft fruity warmth rather than a sharp top-note brightness.
Tonka bean and vanilla rise from the base, pulling everything toward a rounded, balsamic sweetness. Sandalwood provides a smooth, creamy backdrop that stops the composition from becoming too light or one-dimensional.
The final impression is a warm floral-oriental: soft, feminine, and slightly retro in character. The sweetness is present but measured, making it comfortable for everyday wear in cooler months when the base notes have room to develop properly.
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.
