L'Arrivee
Magnolia and bergamot create a bright, creamy citrus-floral opening that feels like chilled citrus petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- White Floral80
- Honey60
- Citrus50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia and bergamot create a bright, creamy citrus-floral opening that feels like chilled citrus petals. The heart doubles down on jasmine and neroli, amplifying the white-floral radiance while olibanum injects a cool, incense-smoke thread that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. As skin heat builds, the jasmine loses its green edge and fuses with sandalwood’s dry creaminess, producing a soft, pollen-dusted wood effect. Honey enters late, not sticky but crystalline, glazing the woods and vanilla with a transparent amber sheen that lingers close. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length for three hours—then settles into a skin-level hum of creamy woods and faint incense. Spring through early fall office wear or bright daytime events benefit from its luminous restraint.
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.
