Clandestine
The opening arrives with an unexpected sweetness—overripe plum and pineapple that lean candied rather than fresh, tempered by bergamot's bitter edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Tuberose60
- Amber55
- Floral55
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Pineapple
- Plum
- Plum
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives with an unexpected sweetness—overripe plum and pineapple that lean candied rather than fresh, tempered by bergamot's bitter edge. It's a deliberately fruity entrance that feels distinctly mid-eighties, unafraid of being noticed.
Within minutes, a dense white floral core emerges: tuberose and jasmine thickened with honey and heliotrope's almond-powder softness. The flowers feel cushioned rather than sharp, their indolic qualities smoothed by iris and ylang-ylang. There's a vintage fullness here, a refusal to be sheer or polite.
The base settles into amber and vanilla laced with civet's animalic warmth, benzoin adding a resinous sweetness while patchouli and cedar provide just enough structure to prevent complete dissolution into softness. It wears like a deliberate contradiction—sweet but shadowed, floral but grounded in something darker. For those who want their white flowers with weight and a hint of provocation.
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.
