Nel
Apple and lychee create an immediate, crisp-sweet splash that feels like chilled fruit water hitting skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fruity70
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lychee
- Magnolia
- Blackberry
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readApple and lychee create an immediate, crisp-sweet splash that feels like chilled fruit water hitting skin. Magnolia steps in early, its lemony creaminess softening the fruit edges while blackberry adds a tart purple depth that keeps the heart from turning sugary. Rose arrives last in the heart, giving a clean pink lift that bridges the dark berry and the coming base. Oakmoss spreads a cool, earthy mat under the fruit-floral layer, turning the composition slightly damp and forest-like as skin heat rises. Ambergris adds a transparent, salty skin-tone glow, and vanilla warms the edges without thickening the air, so the fragrance stays buoyant rather than dessert-heavy. Projection sits at arm’s length for five hours before collapsing to a soft mossy skin scent. Spring through early fall, office-safe yet playful enough for weekend brunch.
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.



