Issey Miyake Pleats Please L’Elixir Edition Noël 2013
Gardenia and heliotrope launch a creamy white-petal haze that feels almost almond-sweet, the lactonic edge turning the flower waxen rather than lush.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Heliotrope
- Peony
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and heliotrope launch a creamy white-petal haze that feels almost almond-sweet, the lactonic edge turning the flower waxen rather than lush. Peony arrives quickly, shaving off the cream with a cool, papery floral that keeps the heart airborne and translucent. Vanilla, cedar and patchouli lock in underneath: the vanilla thickens the remaining gardenia residue, cedar splinters provide dry pencil shavings, and patchouli gives a faint cocoa-earth tug that stops the confection from drifting into pure candy. Wear is close, projecting a soft rosy glow for the first hour before folding into a clean skin-linger of sweet woods; office-safe yet seasonally geared to crisp fall and winter days.
Scent twins
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