Le De
Le De opens cool and herbal — tarragon snipping at bergamot, with lily-of-the-valley already laid underneath like cold linen.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy70
- Woody60
- Floral60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Rosewood
- Tarragon
- Tarragon
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readLe De opens cool and herbal — tarragon snipping at bergamot, with lily-of-the-valley already laid underneath like cold linen. The first minutes feel almost vegetal, the kind of green that belongs to a Paris atelier in early spring rather than a garden.
It warms inward through a quiet bouquet — jasmine and ylang held back from sweetness by rose, the muguet still threaded through. Underneath, sandalwood and oakmoss draw a chypre line; guaiac and frankincense add a dry resinous shadow that keeps the florals upright.
It finishes on amber and clean musk, soft but never plush. A 1957 composition that wears like quiet money — couture-aware, never declarative, made for the woman who thinks Audrey Hepburn was always slightly underdressed.
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.
