Thé Yulong Soie de Nacre
Thé Yulong Soie de Nacre opens cool and bright — petitgrain's leafy bitterness paired with cardamom's dry, slightly camphoric spice.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Vetiver
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThé Yulong Soie de Nacre opens cool and bright — petitgrain's leafy bitterness paired with cardamom's dry, slightly camphoric spice. There's no citrus sweetness; the top reads almost tea-like, austere.
Jasmine and orange blossom in the heart keep the floral character green rather than indolic. The two whites here aren't lush — they're paper-thin, washed in the petitgrain's clean bitterness from above.
Vetiver and iris in the base give the dry-down a powdered, slightly rooty quality. The iris pulls it suede-textured; the vetiver keeps it green. A restrained, aristocratic fragrance — built for daytime wear in cooler weather, more reflective than declarative.
Scent twins
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