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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens with a creamy white-petal bloom lifted by sharp bergamot that slices through the lactonic richness. The heart piles on more gardenia, jasmine and ylang-ylang, amplifying the velvety, almost oily floral texture while narcissus adds a faint green hay edge that keeps the bouquet from turning cloying. As the petals settle, heliotrope infuses a powdery almond softness that merges with clean musk to create a skin-hugging, cashmere-like aura. The dry-down stays close, a quiet blur of benzoin-sweetened petals with a trace of ylang’s banana-leaf nuance flickering late. Projection remains polite, a scent that hovers just inside personal space, ideal for spring office days or humid summer evenings when you want white flowers without the opera. Longevity is moderate, fading to a whisper of musky gardenia after six hours.
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.
