Ines de la Fressange 2004
Neroli opens crisp and soapy, its citrus-oil brightness sliced by tart black-currant bud that keeps the top from turning sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens crisp and soapy, its citrus-oil brightness sliced by tart black-currant bud that keeps the top from turning sweet. Lily of the valley and peony form a dewy green ring that lifts the neroli while iris dusts the petals with cool, carrot-seed powder, creating a freshly-laundered linen effect. As the flowers relax, vetiver adds a dry grass stalk that threads through white musk, amplifying the clean sheet accord rather than adding earth. Benzoin and a light patchouli trail supply a faint almond-paper sweetness that lingers close to skin for the final four hours, keeping the composition polite and office-ready. Projection stays within arm’s length; wear it spring through early fall for work or daytime travel when you want quiet freshness that never veers into cologne territory.
Scent twins
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