Fath de Fath (1993)
The first spray delivers a cool, jammy fruit salad—plum and blackcurrant dominating, with peach adding fleshy sweetness and citrus keeping the sugar in check.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Tonka40
- Tuberose40
- Jasmine35
- Vanilla35
- Amber30
By the editors · 2 min readThe first spray delivers a cool, jammy fruit salad—plum and blackcurrant dominating, with peach adding fleshy sweetness and citrus keeping the sugar in check. This is decidedly synthetic abundance, the kind of fruity blast that defined early-nineties feminines, but rendered with enough restraint to avoid screeching.
As it settles, a dense white floral core emerges, tuberose and jasmine anchored by heliotrope's almond-powder softness. The flowers never fully escape the fruit's shadow; they coexist in a sweetened, slightly soapy harmony. Orange blossom lends a whisper of bitterness, but the overall effect is plush and enveloping.
The drydown turns warm and vanillic, tonka and benzoin creating a soft, ambery cushion with just enough cedar and patchouli to suggest structure. This is a fragrance that wears its era openly—sweet, generous, unapologetically feminine—suited to those who appreciate the candied opulence of pre-reformulation department store classics.
