Cotton Flower
Gardenia dominates the opening, its creamy white petals lacquered with bergamot’s bright citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Lactonic60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Clove
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia dominates the opening, its creamy white petals lacquered with bergamot’s bright citrus edge. Rose soon folds in, adding a soft pink fullness that keeps the gardenia from turning too shampoo-sweet. Jasmine and peony bloom together in the heart, their aqueous green facets lifting the creaminess while a discreet clove bud supplies a faint, drying spice that prevents full bridal bouquet territory. Tonka bean and patchouli anchor the base, the bean lending a faint marzipan warmth and the patchouli offering a clean, light earth that quietly extends the white flowers without darkening them. During the dry-down the scent stays close to skin skin, a clean-laundry musk implicit in the cotton reference. Projection remains polite; it thrives in spring office air-conditioning or humid summer mornings when something fresh but not aquatic is needed.
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.
