Too Much
Too Much announces itself with mimosa and bergamot — yellow, powdery, slightly bitter-green — before expanding into a heart where mimosa plays alongside lily and hyacinth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Green50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Hyacinth
- Lily
- Mimosa
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readToo Much announces itself with mimosa and bergamot — yellow, powdery, slightly bitter-green — before expanding into a heart where mimosa plays alongside lily and hyacinth. The mimosa is not the bright Australian wattle type but the softer, more indolic French variety, and its combination with hyacinth gives the fragrance a cool-soapy quality.
The base lands in classic Guerlain territory: benzoin and narcissus anchor the floral with a warm, slightly animalic-benzenic undertone. Jasmine in the dry-down emerges quietly and rounds the composition. This is a fragrance with clear lineage to the house's older powdery florals — best understood as a lighter relative of L'Heure Bleue. Vintage-leaning but wearable.
Scent twins
In this family
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