Classique X Jewel Edition 2011
Bergamot snaps open with a brisk, almost bitter citric edge that quickly folds into a cool, powdery heart where peony’s translucent petals and iris’s carrot-like starch merge into a silky, makeup-powder accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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 Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Peony
- Iris
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a brisk, almost bitter citric edge that quickly folds into a cool, powdery heart where peony’s translucent petals and iris’s carrot-like starch merge into a silky, makeup-powder accord. The floral layer never turns lush; instead it hovers like pressed face powder against skin, keeping the structure dry and feather-light. Virginia cedar arrives early underneath, its clean pencil-shaving wood anchoring the iris dust without adding sweetness or smoke, so the fragrance stays crisp from first spray to final hour. On skin the transition is seamless: citrus sharpness rounds off within twenty minutes, the powdery heart lingers for three to four hours, then cedar’s soft blond wood remains as a close, linen-like whisper. Projection stays polite, extending only an arm’s length, ideal for office or humid summer days when heavier scents suffocate.
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.
