Lotus Blossom & Water Lily
Lotus Blossom & Water Lily opens with a citrus triad — grapefruit, bergamot, and mandarin — that's brighter and more layered than a typical Jo Malone opener.
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 Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Water Lily
- Jasmine
- Honeysuckle
- Lotus
By the editors · 2 min readLotus Blossom & Water Lily opens with a citrus triad — grapefruit, bergamot, and mandarin — that's brighter and more layered than a typical Jo Malone opener. There's a slight tartness before the aquatics arrive.
The heart is lush: lotus and water lily give a watery green presence, supported by honeysuckle and freesia's light sweetness and jasmine's fuller floral weight. This is the most florally dense stretch, a still-water garden in the middle of a summer afternoon.
The drydown pulls into unexpected territory — sandalwood, guaiac wood, and incense give it a smoky, resinous warmth that outlasts the floral top. Worth wearing through the drydown.
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.
