Vol de Nuit
Vol de Nuit opens with a tense brightness—citrus and galbanum cut through the darkness like runway lights, while narcissus adds a green, almost medicinal edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Aromatic50
- Green50
- Violet50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Orange
- Orange
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readVol de Nuit opens with a tense brightness—citrus and galbanum cut through the darkness like runway lights, while narcissus adds a green, almost medicinal edge. This isn't the cheerful optimism of most orange blossom perfumes. There's something nocturnal and uneasy in that first impression, appropriate for a fragrance named after night flight.
The heart brings soft florals, but they never lighten the mood entirely. Jasmine and rose are muffled by violet and iris, creating a powdery, slightly melancholic quality. Vanilla appears early, but it's restrained, more of a cushion than a comfort. The whole composition feels contained, like watching city lights from a cockpit window.
The base settles into oakmoss and amber, classical and uncompromising. This is a vintage chypre from an era when perfumes weren't designed to please everyone. It suits someone who appreciates austerity and doesn't mind being a little difficult to read—elegant in a way that refuses to smile on command.
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.
