Stilettos on Lex
Pear and lemon create a crisp, slightly sweet opening that feels like chilled orchard fruit rather than sharp citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Powdery70
- Floral60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Lemon
- Violet Leaf
- Rose Absolute
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readPear and lemon create a crisp, slightly sweet opening that feels like chilled orchard fruit rather than sharp citrus. The heart layers violet leaf's green bite under heliotrope's almond-powder softness, with lily of the valley adding watery transparency and iris contributing a cool, carrot-root earthiness that keeps the florals from turning sugary. As the composition settles, Atlas cedar's dry pencil-shaving woodiness emerges beneath clean white musk, creating a skin-close veil that smells like expensive cosmetic powder wiped across cedar wardrobe lining. Projection stays within personal space for six hours, making it office-safe yet distinctly feminine through its iris-violet accord. The fragrance reads as polished professional armor for cool spring mornings when wool crepe skirts replace winter coats.
Scent twins
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