A Chant for the Nymph
From Gucci's The Alchemist's Garden collection, this four-note study opens on frangipani — the creamy tropical flower that reads simultaneously sunlit and nocturnal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla55
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Frangipani
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tiare Flower
- Vanilla
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFrom Gucci's The Alchemist's Garden collection, this four-note study opens on frangipani — the creamy tropical flower that reads simultaneously sunlit and nocturnal. Ylang-ylang joins in the heart alongside tiare, the gardenia-adjacent flower native to French Polynesia, together forming a dense, heady floral centre that doesn't apologise for its sweetness. Vanilla closes the composition and stays close to the skin through the dry-down, giving the whole thing a warm, almost edible quality. The collection was conceived as a botanical exploration, and this particular formula reads as a snapshot of a tropical night — lush, uncomplicated, and deliberately skin-close.
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.
