Fragile
Fragile opens with an unusual combination: ginger and star anise alongside Bulgarian rose and bergamot, the spice and citrus creating an almost culinary brightness before the florals reveal themselves.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Tuberose65
- Floral60
- Rose55
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Ginger
- Bulgarian Rose
- Star Anise
- Star Anise
- Orange Blossom
- Orange
- Lemon
By the editors · 2 min readFragile opens with an unusual combination: ginger and star anise alongside Bulgarian rose and bergamot, the spice and citrus creating an almost culinary brightness before the florals reveal themselves. The heart is a grand white-floral statement: tuberose creamy and dense, jasmine narcotic, ylang-ylang banana-floral, iris adding chalk and root, rose threading through everything. Cinnamon, amber, and vanilla in the base give a warm spiced sweetness that anchors the florals in oriental territory. A Gaultier fragrance that matches its surrealist bottle — packed with character, unapologetically maximalist, early-2000s floral at its most elaborate.
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.
