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Guerlain · Est. 2007

Aqua Allegoria Angelique Lilas

Jean-Paul Guerlain opens this Aqua Allegoria with a warm spiced-citrus accord: orange and jasmine provide brightness, pink pepper adding its characteristic dry prickle.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2007
Statusenriched
2007 · Fragrance
ber·jas·ora·ced
Rating
3.9
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 12 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.

  • Bergamot
    30
  • Jasmine
    30
  • Orange
    30
  • Cedar
    30
  • Musk
    30

By the editors · 2 min readJean-Paul Guerlain opens this Aqua Allegoria with a warm spiced-citrus accord: orange and jasmine provide brightness, pink pepper adding its characteristic dry prickle. The heart transitions into a distinctly springtime floral: lilac — green, slightly humid, the scent of a bush after rain — paired with angelica's earthy-celery root quality and ylang-ylang's creamy richness. It's an unusual combination that holds together well. Heliotrope in the base adds a marzipan-like sweetness that merges with cedar's clean dryness into a gentle, powdery close. A bright, well-structured addition to the Allegoria canon — lighter than many entries in the line, and the better for it.

Filed: GuerlainSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap