L'Heure Attendue
Lily of the valley opens cool and green, its bell-like crispness framing the composition like morning light through white curtains.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- White Floral70
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Opoponax
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the valley opens cool and green, its bell-like crispness framing the composition like morning light through white curtains. Jasmine and ylang-ynang arrive within minutes, folding a plush, yellow floral creaminess around the green stem while rose keeps the heart airy rather than sultry. Opoponax adds a soft, honeyed resin that warms the florals without pushing them into amber territory, letting the white bouquet stay luminous. As the skin heats, Mysore sandalwood steams up, its buttery wood coaxing vanilla into a gentle milk-skin accord that feels like fabric washed in expensive soap. Patchouli trails underneath, supplying a quiet earthiness that stops the dry-down from turning purely powdery. Projection stays polite, a low-hum scent bubble perfect for office or spring luncheon. Eight-hour longevity, little sillage beyond arm’s length.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
