Shibumi
With no top notes given, the perfume launches directly into its floral heart.
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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Peony
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Bamboo
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top notes given, the perfume launches directly into its floral heart. Gardenia, magnolia, peony, and freesia stack creamy white petals over softer pink florals — a lush bouquet that reads polished and feminine from the first moment.
The development holds that floral chord steady. Gardenia and magnolia's creamy weight is lifted by peony's airy translucence and freesia's clean watery quality, so the perfume never tips into heavy or indolic territory.
Sandalwood lends a quiet creamy spine in the base while bamboo adds a green-fresh thread that keeps the drydown bright. The finish settles into a soft white-floral skin scent with a faint green edge. Overall transparent, modern, and well-mannered.
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.
