Gorseland
Gorseland opens on a bright, slightly country-garden note — tart apple alongside lavender and lemon, where the fruit reads more cool and crisp than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender90
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readGorseland opens on a bright, slightly country-garden note — tart apple alongside lavender and lemon, where the fruit reads more cool and crisp than sweet. Lavender grounds the opening with herbal familiarity, giving the composition a clean, botanical quality from the start.
Neroli arrives in the heart with a soft bitterness characteristic of orange blossom in its greener expression. It links the citrus opening to the floral register without tipping into white-floral heaviness. The interplay between lavender and neroli is the compositional center of this fragrance.
The base is spare, leaving the herbal-citrus-floral structure without major transformation. It remains fresh and relatively linear — a well-resolved outdoor or daytime scent that wears cleanly without demanding attention.
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Scent twins
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