Shaft of Light
Orange blossom opens bright and soapy, its waxy white petals dusted with lemon zest and grapefruit pulp that keeps the citrus crackling for twenty minutes magnolia steps in with cool, cream-sweet petals that tame the tart top.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Citrus60
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens bright and soapy, its waxy white petals dusted with lemon zest and grapefruit pulp that keeps the citrus crackling for twenty minutes magnolia steps in with cool, cream-sweet petals that tame the tart top. Gardenia and jasmine layer a humid, night-blooming thickness over the citrus, while lily-of-the-valley injects a dewy green edge that stops the bouquet from turning syrupy; rose threads a faint powder through the heart, lifting the white flowers into something almost aldehydic. As skin warms, sandalwood and amber fuse into a buttery blond wood panel, vanilla rounding the edges and oakmoss adding a cool forest-floor snap that reins in the sweetness; patchouli lends a dry cocoa leaf, musk a clean skin hum. Projection stays polite but persistent, office-safe yet luminous on spring weekends when you want florals without sugar.
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.