Silences
Galbanum opens it with that sharp, almost aggressive vegetable-green bite, softened by orange blossom and the citrus freshness of lemon and bergamot.
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.
- Oakmoss70
- Jasmine65
- Rose60
- Sandalwood55
- Iris55
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens it with that sharp, almost aggressive vegetable-green bite, softened by orange blossom and the citrus freshness of lemon and bergamot. The heart is dense with pale florals — jasmine narcotic and full, lily of the valley cool and dewy, iris adding a rooty powder, narcissus bringing its heady indolic edge, rose grounding the cluster. The base is classic chypre architecture: oakmoss earthen and mossy, sandalwood warming, vetiver dry and smoky, cedar providing structural spine. Long-lived, assertive, built for a woman who dresses deliberately. A document of what French perfumery was doing before the 1990s light-wash era — green, floral, mossy, and wholly unapologetic.
