Classique Summer Fragrance 2008
Orange blossom and lemon charge the opening with a soapy-citrus brightness that immediately feels like chilled linen drying under midday sun.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom and lemon charge the opening with a soapy-citrus brightness that immediately feels like chilled linen drying under midday sun. The heart piles on white florals: jasmine adds indolic creaminess, ylang-ylang contributes a banana-sweet oil, lily-of-the-valley supplies green sparkle, while iris powders the whole bouquet with cosmetic talc. Amber and vanilla arrive early, warming the florals and tilting the composition from fresh to lightly caramelised skin. Within two hours the musk dominates, turning the scent into a clean, faintly sweet skin veil that still carries a ghost of lemon soap. Projection stays polite, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length for about four hours before collapsing to skin; it works best as a post-shower spritz on humid 25 °C days when you want floral cleanliness without loud sillage.
Scent twins
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