Lilac
Anise crackles open like black licorice dusted with sugar, quick and bright before lavender rushes in with its cool herbal spine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Anise
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAnise crackles open like black licorice dusted with sugar, quick and bright before lavender rushes in with its cool herbal spine. The heart is a tangle of white petals: jasmine’s indolic lift, lily’s watery green, ylang-ylang’s banana-cream sweetness, all cushioned by that persistent lavender so nothing turns too lush. Vanilla warms the base, but white musk keeps the texture sheer, laundering the flowers into something closer to a clean skin scent than a bouquet. Wear it when you want the idea of spring without the pollen; sillage stays within arm’s reach for about four hours, then folds into a soft musk that smells like freshly laundered cotton dried in a lilac-scented breeze.
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.
