Eau de
Mint and grapefruit open with a cool, bright freshness unusual for 1980 — a more transparent launch than most contemporaries were attempting.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 23 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.
- Tuberose70
- Floral65
- Rose60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Tuberose
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readMint and grapefruit open with a cool, bright freshness unusual for 1980 — a more transparent launch than most contemporaries were attempting. Bergamot and citrus from the general list support the opening before the heart arrives and transforms the composition entirely. Tuberose, ylang-ylang, narcissus, jasmine, and rose together form a white floral mass of real density: narcissus in particular — faintly lactonic, slightly powdery-animalic — places this unmistakably in its era.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, and cedar close in a classical chypre base, rich and unhurried. Eau de Givenchy is a study in deliberate contrast — the cool fresh opening yielding to a grand vintage white floral heart that rewards patience.
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.
