Shalimar Souffle d'Oranger
Opens with a bright, slightly bitter petitgrain over bergamot — green and citrusy with the leafy snap of orange tree branches rather than fruit.
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 Floral85
- Citrus55
- Vanilla50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a bright, slightly bitter petitgrain over bergamot — green and citrusy with the leafy snap of orange tree branches rather than fruit. The first minutes feel cool and slightly aromatic.
Neroli takes the heart and runs unaccompanied, all white-floral honeyed lift with the slightly soapy, slightly indolic character of fresh orange blossom petals. The middle is where the perfume reveals itself as a soliflore in disguise.
Drydown softens dramatically. Sandalwood goes creamy under vanilla's quiet warmth, with orange blossom continuing to thread through, building toward a soft, powdery floral-amber finish that gestures at the parent composition without committing to its weight. A lighter, sunnier reading of the original — built for warm afternoons rather than candlelit evenings.
Scent twins
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