Flora Gorgeous Gardenia
The gardenia here doesn't whisper—it announces itself with milky, almost narcotic density, wrapped immediately in a haze of jasmine that keeps the white floral from tipping into soapiness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Floral75
- Patchouli65
- Caramel55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Brown Sugar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe gardenia here doesn't whisper—it announces itself with milky, almost narcotic density, wrapped immediately in a haze of jasmine that keeps the white floral from tipping into soapiness. There's a velvety thickness to the opening, creamy and enveloping, as if the flowers have been steeped in something rich.
As it settles, brown sugar tempers the intensity with a caramelized warmth that feels more molten than sweet, grounding the florals without turning them gourmand. Patchouli provides an earthy undertow, dark and slightly mossy, giving the composition unexpected weight. The overall effect lands somewhere between opulent and languid—a gardenia that's been left to bloom in humid air, touched by sugar and soil.
This is for those who want white florals that take up space, who prefer their flowers heady rather than clean. It's unabashedly full-bodied, meant for evening or whenever restraint feels unnecessary.
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.
