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Kenzo · Est. 2015

Flower by Kenzo L'Elixir

L'Elixir takes the Flower by Kenzo DNA — that slightly clinical, poppy-centred white floral — and pushes it firmly into gourmand territory.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2015
Statusenriched
2015 · Fragrance
ros·car·van·mus
Rating
4.3
1.9k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Rose
    70
  • Caramel
    50
  • Vanilla
    40
  • Musk
    40
  • Peach
    30

By the editors · 2 min readL'Elixir takes the Flower by Kenzo DNA — that slightly clinical, poppy-centred white floral — and pushes it firmly into gourmand territory. Raspberry opens things in the way raspberries usually work in fragrance: not quite fruit, more of a sweet-tart synthetic shimmer that primes the skin for what follows. The rose at the heart is Bulgarian, which means genuine depth of petal complexity, though orange blossom keeps it from going too serious.

Praline in the base turns the whole thing warm and sticky-sweet in the final hour — not unpleasant, but the decision to end there narrows who will love it. L'Elixir is for someone who loved the original and wanted more envelope-pushing sweetness, not more floral complexity. The transition from the top through the heart is the most interesting part; catch it there.

Filed: KenzoSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap