Background Jil Sander 1993 Eau de Toilette
Background opens in a high-contrast tangle of tarragon and lavender slung over lemon and bergamot, with a strange ribbon of raspberry threading through the citrus that keeps it from reading like a straight aromatic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Sweet60
- Amber60
- Lavender55
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readBackground opens in a high-contrast tangle of tarragon and lavender slung over lemon and bergamot, with a strange ribbon of raspberry threading through the citrus that keeps it from reading like a straight aromatic. The herbal pull is sharper than it is green, as if the lavender had been left to dry on a warm stone.
In the heart, cinnamon braids itself around jasmine, lily and lily-of-the-valley, and the floral mass softens against heliotrope's almond hush. The drydown is the long part of the wear: tonka and benzoin laid over sandalwood and amber, with vanilla and musk sanding down the edges. It settles close, warm, slightly powdered — fragrant in the way an old wool blazer can be.
Scent twins
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