Classique Love Actually
Pear drips syrupy sweetness over orange blossom's creamy white petals, while star anise injects a licorice snap that keeps the opening from cloying.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Star Anise
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Ginger
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readPear drips syrupy sweetness over orange blossom's creamy white petals, while star anise injects a licorice snap that keeps the opening from cloying. Ginger's peppery heat slices through the heart, letting ylang-ylang's banana-like richness and plum's jammy depth pool underneath; iris dusts the fruit with a cool, violet-tinted powder that mutes the sugar. Vanilla thickens as skin warms, folding amber into a chewy amber-resin layer that traps musk close to the body, turning the earlier brightness into a muffled, skin-hugging purr. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, ideal for cool autumn evenings or intimate restaurant tables. The composition keeps Classique's curves but swaps the usual bombshell volume for a quieter, fruit-laced sensuality that feels more private than performative.
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.
