Eau de Patou
Orange opens clean and direct, without much fruitiness, before quickly yielding to a heart of ylang-ylang and orange blossom.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Oakmoss
- Civet
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readOrange opens clean and direct, without much fruitiness, before quickly yielding to a heart of ylang-ylang and orange blossom. The florals are tropical in weight but tempered by each other — ylang's banana-cream edge meeting orange blossom's slightly soapy lift.
Civet pushes animalic warmth into the base alongside oakmoss, which grounds the composition with green, earthy density. Amber and musk round the dry-down into something close to skin-warm.
The overall impression is a spare, slightly retro white-floral chypre. No fruit lingers, no sweetness distracts — the animalic and mossy threads carry most of the weight through to the finish.
Scent twins
In this family
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