Émotion de Frédéric
Lemon and bergamot open with a bright, slightly tart citrus sparkle that quickly folds into a creamy heart where jasmine's indolic radiance meets the powdery almond facet of heliotrope.
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.
- Iris80
- Powdery60
- Citrus60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Blackberry
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a bright, slightly tart citrus sparkle that quickly folds into a creamy heart where jasmine's indolic radiance meets the powdery almond facet of heliotrope. Iris adds a cool, violet-tinged chalkiness that keeps the blackberry from reading too jammy, turning the fruit into a muted purple tint rather than overt sweetness. As the base settles, sandalwood's dry cream anchors vanilla's soft custard richness while oakmoss supplies a muted forest-floor bitterness that reins in the sugar. Opoponax contributes a translucent, honey-toned resin that melds with patchouli's cocoa-earth nuance, extending the later stages into a skin-close, musky haze with a faint leather undertow. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, making it office-friendly yet quietly sensual through cooler spring and early fall days.
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.




