The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Vanilla85
- Floral65
- Woody55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Pear
By the editors · 2 min read# Angelique Noire
A study in contrasts wrapped in Guerlain's signature warmth. The opening arrives with pink pepper's gentle heat softened by a suggestion of pear—not fruit salad sweetness, but something more muted and resinous. As it settles, jasmine emerges with unusual restraint, its indolic edges smoothed by vanilla that feels almost burnt, like crème brûlée just past perfect.
What makes this compelling is how cedar anchors the sweetness, preventing it from drifting into confection. The vanilla-wood combination has a slightly smoky, ambered quality that feels more candlelit library than pastry counter. Despite "angelique" in the name, the overall effect leans shadowy rather than luminous—plush and enveloping without being overtly gourmand.
Best suited to those who appreciate oriental fragrances but want something less bombastic than the genre typically delivers. It wears close, with a warmth that builds slowly rather than announcing itself.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
