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 14 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.
- Mossy70
- Floral65
- Rose60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
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.
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.
