Smiley
Smiley opens cheerful and round — bergamot and orange together, a citrus pair that sets up something brighter than its sugary middle eventually delivers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli55
- Caramel55
- Warm Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Praline
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSmiley opens cheerful and round — bergamot and orange together, a citrus pair that sets up something brighter than its sugary middle eventually delivers. The opening lasts roughly fifteen minutes before the heart takes over.
The middle is essentially praline: sweet, nutty, caramelized, almost foody. It's the perfume's defining note and runs straight into the drydown, where patchouli and white musk close around it. The patchouli here isn't the dirty hippie kind but the cleaned-up clearwood version that pairs cleanly with sweets, and the musk fluffs the whole thing into a cozy, chocolate-brown character. A simple linear gourmand — citrus on top, candy in the middle, soft-warm wood at the base.
Scent twins
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