Illicit Flower
Illicit Flower opens with freesia and apricot — the slightly lemony flower and soft stone-fruit produce an impression of freshness without acidity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Musky70
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Apricot
- Pear
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readIllicit Flower opens with freesia and apricot — the slightly lemony flower and soft stone-fruit produce an impression of freshness without acidity. The freesia here is light and slightly green, the apricot more hint than headline.
The heart expands the fruit into pear, introduces jasmine and rose, and revisits freesia. There's an easy, undemanding quality — familiar ingredients assembled with competence. The pear adds a watery sweetness that links the apricot to the florals.
Sandalwood, benzoin, vanilla, and cashmeran form a creamy, skin-warm base that anchors the light florals without competing. Cashmeran here functions as a smooth, slightly woody-ambery haze rather than a distinct accord. An accessible, well-made fruity-floral that does its job without pretension.
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.
