Stylessence
Petitgrain and freesia open with a clean, slightly tart freshness, while cardamom adds a faint spiced edge that keeps the opening from reading as purely transparent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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 Floral85
- Violet75
- Powdery60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and freesia open with a clean, slightly tart freshness, while cardamom adds a faint spiced edge that keeps the opening from reading as purely transparent. Neroli and orange blossom arrive quickly in the heart, contributing a soft citrus-floral warmth.
Violet and jasmine deepen the floral core — violet in particular lends a powdery quality that aligns with the iris-like smoothness typical of compositions built this way. Amber and musk in the base warm everything down into a quiet, skin-close drydown that is understated rather than projecting.
This is a clean, polished white-floral with enough warmth to avoid smelling clinical. It suits daytime wear across most moderate-temperature contexts.
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.
