Glorious
Galbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that feels like crushed stems, slicing through bergamot’s polite sparkle to create an almost metallic freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that feels like crushed stems, slicing through bergamot’s polite sparkle to create an almost metallic freshness. The heart layers jasmine and ylang-ylang into a creamy white-floral cushion, while lily-of-the-valley keeps a cool dew that stops the bouquet from turning sugary. Rose threads a faintly spiced crolder beneath, letting the green top persist longer than expected. As the flowers relax, sandalwood and cedar warm, their dry wood dusted by oakmoss’s faintly earthy loam and amber’s soft glow, so the finish stays cool-resinous rather than sweet. Skin projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, ideal for spring offices or crisp fall weekends when you want chypre elegance without loud chatter.
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.
