Fleurs d'Ombre Thé Poudré
Heliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder sweetness that immediately sets a pastel tone, while bergamot adds a brief citric lift that keeps the composition from turning dense.
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.
- Powdery80
- Iris70
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Orris
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder sweetness that immediately sets a pastel tone, while bergamot adds a brief citric lift that keeps the composition from turning dense. Mimosa’s yellow-floral fuzz merges with the orris heart, amplifying the powder accord and lending a slightly doughy texture that feels like pressed cosmetic dust. As the top settles, the iris note dominates, its cool carrot-like facet sharpening the heliotrope and pulling the scent away from true gourmand territory. White musk and tonka bean in the base re-soften the edges, releasing a clean, faintly vanilla-tinged haze that clings close to skin, while sandalwood contributes a whisper of creamy wood that lengthens wear without adding weight. Projection remains intimate, projecting no farther than a hug, yet the musky powder trail lingers for hours, making it a discreet comfort scent rather than a statement.
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.
