Duende
Duende opens with a melon-bergamot freshness typical of its era — fruit as a brightening agent rather than a statement, with the citrus providing enough structure to anchor the sweetness.
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.
- Floral70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Mimosa
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readDuende opens with a melon-bergamot freshness typical of its era — fruit as a brightening agent rather than a statement, with the citrus providing enough structure to anchor the sweetness. The 1992 context sets the tone: this is pre-gourmand, pre-aquatic, from a moment when floralcy still led.
Jasmine and ylang-ylang form the core of the heart — an indolic, heady pairing that doesn't soften for comfort. Mimosa adds a powdery, spring-flowering touch that rounds the edges without defusing the intensity. Together they build a warm, white-floral mid-stage with noticeable presence.
Thyme in the base is an unusual choice that gives the dry-down an herbal, slightly medicinal edge, anchored by sandalwood and cedar. Duende has the clarity and confidence of Spanish perfumery from its era: few frills, direct character.
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.
