Sakura Cherry Blossom
Bergamot and mandarin launch with a citrus brightness that reads distinctly sunny — sparkling without being sharp.
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.
- Cherry70
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Cherry Blossom
- Mimosa
- Rose
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and mandarin launch with a citrus brightness that reads distinctly sunny — sparkling without being sharp. The floral heart of cherry blossom, rose, and mimosa has a fragile, gossamer quality; cherry blossom lands as a pale floral impression rather than anything fruit-adjacent.
The musk base is simple and clean, giving the florals room to speak and then disappearing quietly. This is a transparent, daylight fragrance — the perfumery equivalent of seeing cherry trees in early bloom from a distance. Jo Malone's Sakura is earnestly seasonal and unambiguous about it.
Scent twins
In this family
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