Quand Vient La Pluie
Bergamot and orange blossom open cool and slightly metallic, their citrus brightness clipped by rosemary’s green bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Almond60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and orange blossom open cool and slightly metallic, their citrus brightness clipped by rosemary’s green bite. The heart folds heliotrope’s almond-powder sweetness around jasmine’s indolic cream, while violet adds a cool, watercolor transparency that keeps the white flowers from turning plush. Amber and patchouli arrive early, warming the base with a dry, earthy amber glow that swallows the citrus and lets the heliotrope praline linger as a softly toasted skin scent. Projection stays polite, tracing a forearm-length halo for six hours; the composition feels like rain-cooled skin once the sun returns. Spring through early fall workdays, especially when you want floral without sugar.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
