Bloom
Bloom (2013) opens with a ripe raspberry that reads more tart and saturated than sweet, giving the first impression a berry-stained freshness.
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.
- Musky70
- Smoky65
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Iris
- Violet
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBloom (2013) opens with a ripe raspberry that reads more tart and saturated than sweet, giving the first impression a berry-stained freshness. The floral heart brings iris and violet — close-petaled, slightly powdery — alongside peony to soften the composition.
What makes this fragrance unusual for its name is the base: incense and frankincense enter quietly, pushing Bloom into smoky, resinous territory more often found in orientals than florals. The musk anchors it to skin. The effect is a floral that darkens as it dries down, moving from a sunlit garden opening to something more candlelit at the close. Works well in cooler weather where the incense base reads as warmth rather than weight.
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.
