Quel Amour!
Quel Amour opens with pomegranate and peach that register as bright but muted, like fruit seen through frosted glass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Peach
- Peony
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readQuel Amour opens with pomegranate and peach that register as bright but muted, like fruit seen through frosted glass. There's a gentle tartness that never sharpens into anything aggressive—the pomegranate stays soft, almost floral itself, while the peach adds roundness without obvious lactonic sweetness. This restraint carries through the heart, where peony blooms quietly, maintaining the powdery-translucent quality rather than breaking into full garden realism.
The amber in the base works more as a skin-warmer than a statement, giving the composition weight without turning it amber-centric. What emerges is something intentionally understated, the sort of fragrance that requires proximity to appreciate. It suits someone drawn to sheer florals with minimal projection, willing to sacrifice presence for delicacy. Quel Amour feels private, almost self-effacing—romantic in the manner of a handwritten note rather than a grand gesture.
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.
