Osmanthe Yunnan
Orange opens briefly and brightly, more accent than statement — the citrus barely registers before osmanthus and freesia take over, the freesia adding a soft peppery floral lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lactonic80
- Fruity70
- Leather60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Leather
- Apricot
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readOrange opens briefly and brightly, more accent than statement — the citrus barely registers before osmanthus and freesia take over, the freesia adding a soft peppery floral lift.
Osmanthus is the heart's defining note: apricot-skinned, faintly tea-leafed, with a creamy fruity quality that blurs the line between flower and stone fruit. Freesia gives the middle a slight powdered cool, but osmanthus dominates — golden, plush, slightly leathery at its skin.
Apricot in the base reinforces the lactonic fruit register, leather underneath giving the close a faint suede warmth. The whole arc is short and saturated — a fruity-floral built around osmanthus's apricot character, with leather adding a quiet shadow that keeps it from going too bright or too sweet.
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.
