Air di Gioia
Neroli announces itself first — bright, slightly bitter citrus blossom, cleaner than orange but with the same solar warmth underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Musky55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Peony
- Moss
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli announces itself first — bright, slightly bitter citrus blossom, cleaner than orange but with the same solar warmth underneath. The opening is brief, stepping aside quickly for the heart, where ylang-ylang, orange blossom, and peony form a dense tropical-floral cluster that's richer than the original Acqua di Gioia and less aquatic.
Patchouli grounds the base without overwhelming the florals, lending a quiet earthiness that keeps this from reading as a straight spring fragrance. Moss adds a pale green accord behind the patchouli — barely there but enough to prevent the sweetness from dominating.
The drydown is warm and musky, closer to skin than the flanker's name suggests. Better suited to warm evenings than the beach-fresh original — an evolution rather than a variation.
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.
