1904 Madame Butterfly Puccini Absolu EdP
Neroli opens cleanly, adding a brief citrus-floral brightness before stepping back quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Almond50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orris
- Heliotrope
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens cleanly, adding a brief citrus-floral brightness before stepping back quickly. The real character begins almost immediately as orris and heliotrope take over — together they produce a dense, powdery, almond-tinged softness that's unmistakably iris-adjacent.
Heliotrope gives a warm, cherry-almond quality that blurs into the orris's cool violet-root powder. The combination feels slightly retro without being dated — powdery but with enough floralcy to avoid feeling flat. Cedar and sandalwood provide a dry, lightly resinous base that keeps the powder from becoming cloying.
Musk in the dry-down keeps things skin-close and intimate. The overall character is cool, powdery, and softly almond-floral — restrained and close-wearing.
Scent twins
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