Liu
Liu arrived in 1929 as a tribute to the Puccini heroine — and carries that operatic pedigree in its bones.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Amber60
- Bergamot50
- Jasmine50
- Rose50
- Iris50
By the editors · 2 min readLiu arrived in 1929 as a tribute to the Puccini heroine — and carries that operatic pedigree in its bones. Neroli and bergamot open with the bright, slightly bitter luminosity of classic French composition; beneath them, rosemary introduces an herbal sharpness that keeps the jasmine-and-rose heart from softening into sentimentality.
The drydown is warmly powdery: amber, vanilla, and iris settle into the characteristic Guerlain base accord — not the sweet warmth of gourmands but something more austere, like aged silk in a cool room. A period piece in the best sense, restored but not modernized.
