Les Voyages Olfactifs 05 Paris-Shanghai
The opening is defined immediately by star anise and almond — a sweet, slightly medicinal combination that bergamot brightens without fully taming.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is defined immediately by star anise and almond — a sweet, slightly medicinal combination that bergamot brightens without fully taming. There is a marzipan quality here, but the anise keeps it from feeling purely confectionery.
Moving into the heart, ylang-ylang and mimosa introduce a soft yellow-floral dimension that lifts the sweetness without making it powdery. Orange blossom adds a slightly creamy, indolic note that keeps the floral phase interesting. The overall development is relatively linear.
Sandalwood, vanilla, and cedar ease the drydown into a warm, lightly woody finish. The almond thread persists from start to finish, giving the fragrance a distinctive and cohesive signature that is clearly its organizing principle.
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.
