Les Élixirs Charnels - Floral Romantique
Petitgrain and neroli spark a green-citrus flash that feels like crushed leaves on damp skin, not a Mediterranean postcard.
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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 Floral80
- Yellow Floral60
- Fresh50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and neroli spark a green-citrus flash that feels like crushed leaves on damp skin, not a Mediterranean postcard. Within minutes jasmine and ylang-ylang surge, their buttery petals cushioned by orange blossom water, turning the opening brightness into a creamy white-floral haze that muffles the initial twang. The heart stays pillowy for hours; cedar never dominates, instead benzoin adds a soft vanilla-almmond glaze that keeps the bouquet rounded rather than woody. Sillage radiates an arm’s length for the first three hours, then collapses to skin, where a faint almond-orange glow lingers through an office day. Best in mild spring or early-fall weather; too polite for humid heat yet too airy for winter coats.
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.