Parfum D'Hermès
A sharp green opening — galbanum cutting against bergamot — gives way to a classic floral heart of Bulgarian rose, ylang, and iris.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody60
- Rose55
- Amber55
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp green opening — galbanum cutting against bergamot — gives way to a classic floral heart of Bulgarian rose, ylang, and iris. The combination reads stately and slightly old-fashioned, with the iris cooling the rose and ylang's tropical sweetness.
The base is where the perfume reveals its 1980s heritage: sandalwood, vetiver, and myrrh laced with incense, with vanilla and amber softening the edges. The effect is grand without being heavy — a dressed-up version of yourself for a black-tie evening, more compositional than purely floral. Belongs to a tradition of perfumes that take time to wear in.
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.
