L'Initial
Orange and bergamot splash a bright citrus sheen across the opening, while jasmine adds a faint white-floral lift that keeps the fruits from turning candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Caramel90
- Almond80
- Iris70
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Iris
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot splash a bright citrus sheen across the opening, while jasmine adds a faint white-floral lift that keeps the fruits from turning candied. At the heart, iris steps forward with a cool, chalky powder that blurs the citrus edges and begins to pull the scent toward skin. The base layers caramel and almond over creamy tonka and vanilla, letting patchouli supply just enough earthy grip to stop the accord from collapsing into pure dessert. As it settles, the caramel softens, the iris powder lingers, and white musk stretches everything into a close, velvety haze that smells like marzipan dusted with cocoa. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours, making it an easy cold-weather office gourmand rather than a nightclub sugar bomb.
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.
