Hesperide
Hesperide opens with the classic hesperidic trio — neroli, lemon, bergamot — rendered in a clean, slightly aldehydic register.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readHesperide opens with the classic hesperidic trio — neroli, lemon, bergamot — rendered in a clean, slightly aldehydic register. The opening is bright and transparent, with neroli's floral facet softening the pure citrus sharpness.
Jasmine, cedar, and violet in the heart shift the composition toward a dry floral-woody direction. The violet is notably prominent per the prior data, giving the heart a powdery quality that bridges citrus and base. White musk and vetiver in the base provide an earthy, slightly green drydown. The aldehyde character woven through the structure gives the whole thing a slightly retro quality — clean but not clinical, linear in the best sense. A fragrance for measured, refined contexts.
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.
