Fleur de Cabotine
Without a true top, the composition opens straight into its heart of lily and peony, soft and slightly dewy, with a thread of mandarin brightness running through from the general notes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Floral70
- Almond60
- Powdery50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Peony
- Heliotrope
- Musk
- Lily
- Heliotrope
- Peony
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readWithout a true top, the composition opens straight into its heart of lily and peony, soft and slightly dewy, with a thread of mandarin brightness running through from the general notes.
The lily reads creamy and a touch waxy, while peony keeps the floral aspect rosy-fresh rather than heavy. There's an almost lactonic, almond-tinged sweetness emerging early, suggesting the heliotrope's signature even before it formally arrives.
The base of heliotrope and musk pulls everything into a soft, powdery cherry-almond haze, with musk diffusing the florals into something close to skin. The drydown is gentle, slightly nostalgic-cosmetic, and very wearable. Comfortable for spring and cooler days, an unobtrusive everyday floral rather than a statement piece.
Scent twins
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