Hanae Mori
The opening is instantly recognizable: a trio of red and black berries that smell plush, almost candied, but never shrill.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fruity70
- Floral65
- Rose55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Strawberry
- Black Currant
- Blackberry
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is instantly recognizable: a trio of red and black berries that smell plush, almost candied, but never shrill. Strawberry leads with a juicy sweetness that's softened by the darker tannins of blackberry and cassis. It reads like a fruit compote, generous but not naive.
As it settles, white florals emerge with surprising weight. Jasmine and ylang-ylang bring a creamy, faintly indolic richness that anchors the berry sweetness, while rose and peony add petaled softness. The contrast between tart fruit and full-bodied flowers gives the composition its character: cheerful but grounded, never too young.
The sandalwood and cedar base is gentle, offering just enough structure to keep the perfume from turning ephemeral. This is a fragrance from the era when fruity florals still had substance, before the genre turned purely aqueous. It feels optimistic, approachable, and unapologetically feminine without reading as vintage.
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.
