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 20 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
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Rosemary
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
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.
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.
