Fleur d'Interdit
The opening bursts with juicy, almost candied fruit—melon and berries that feel plush rather than sharp, sweetened by a haze of freesia.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Iris60
- Rose40
- Vanilla35
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Peach
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with juicy, almost candied fruit—melon and berries that feel plush rather than sharp, sweetened by a haze of freesia. It's unabashedly fruity in the manner of mid-nineties florals, generous and immediate, but tempered by bergamot's citric edge that keeps it from collapsing into syrup.
As it settles, the fruit recedes into a soft-focus white floral heart. Gardenia and jasmine blur together with violet and lily of the valley, creating something smooth and pillowy rather than intoxicating. There's a powdery quality emerging from the violet leaf and iris, lending a cosmetic elegance that feels deliberate, almost nostalgic.
The base is where restraint finally arrives: sandalwood and a whisper of oakmoss anchor the sweetness, while orris and heliotrope add a talc-like dryness. It's a fragrance that wears close and sweet, suited to someone who wants floral femininity without sharp edges or dramatic sillage. Polite, pretty, and very much of its era.
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.