L'Instant de Guerlain Fleur de Mandarine
Bergamot opens with a quick juicy brightness, edged by a faint mandarin shimmer that the title implies.
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.
- White Floral60
- Floral60
- Fruity60
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Black Currant
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a quick juicy brightness, edged by a faint mandarin shimmer that the title implies. The opening is short and citrus-clean, lasting only a few minutes before the heart begins.
Magnolia takes the floral center, white and slightly lemony, with black currant adding a tart, almost catty fruit accent that gives the middle an unexpected twist. The combination feels both sweet and slightly sour at once.
Vanilla forms the base, smoothing the seams without becoming heavy, with cedar adding a dry woody backbone and musk closing the structure. Overall the character is a sheer fruity-floral with a quiet vanilla-musk close, moderate projection, and a development that stays consistent and luminous from start to finish.
Scent twins
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