Pleats Please 2012 Issey Miyake 2012 L'Elixir Eau de Parfum
Pear opens juicy and watery, more like fresh fruit than candied — a transparent opening signalling lightness rather than weight.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Patchouli70
- Fresh60
- Fruity55
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Peony
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPear opens juicy and watery, more like fresh fruit than candied — a transparent opening signalling lightness rather than weight. The top is brief and clean.
Peony in the heart adds a soft, slightly powdery floralcy that complements the pear without competing — the composition stays in a watery fruity-floral register, no spice or green sharpness intruding. The effect is almost luminous, a fresh modern floral built for daytime ease.
Vanilla, cedar and patchouli give the base body — patchouli adding a clean earthy spine, vanilla gentle sweetness, cedar a dry-woody finish. Overall character is a watery pear-floral with a quiet woody-vanilla drydown — warm-weather, casual or office, light projection.
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.
