Bella Donna
Ginger and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly peppery lift before the composition moves into a dense floral heart.
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.
- Balsamic80
- Iris60
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly peppery lift before the composition moves into a dense floral heart. Orris, magnolia, jasmine, ylang-ylang, and May rose arrive together — a layered floral arrangement where the powdery iris and creamy magnolia soften the louder jasmine and ylang.
Saffron threads through the transition into the base, adding an animalic warmth to labdanum, benzoin, and opoponax. These resins build something dense and amber-like, kept from becoming too heavy by the musk. Benzoin and opoponax together lend a sweet-balsamic quality.
Bella Donna sits at the intersection of rich oriental florals and resinous warmth — full-bodied, complex, and best suited to cooler evening wear.
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.
