Essence de Femme
Essence de Femme opens with black currant and freesia over a mandarin orange note — fruity and clean, with the freesia's slight green quality keeping the opening from reading as purely sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Freesia
- Mandarin Orange
- Jasmine
- Lily
By the editors · 2 min readEssence de Femme opens with black currant and freesia over a mandarin orange note — fruity and clean, with the freesia's slight green quality keeping the opening from reading as purely sweet. The black currant is restrained, contributing color rather than tartness.
Jasmine and lily carry the heart. They're soft rather than assertive, allowing the fruity quality of the top to carry forward without competition. The transition from opening to heart feels continuous rather than punctuated.
Sandalwood and amber close the fragrance, with an apricot note that bridges the floral middle to the warm base. The overall effect is a warm, softly fruity feminine: daytime-appropriate, approachable, and fully within the commercial feminine category of its era.
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.
