Crystal Gardenia
Crystal Gardenia opens with pear — juicy and light — before gardenia and tuberose take over and push the composition into fuller, creamier territory.
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.
- Musky60
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCrystal Gardenia opens with pear — juicy and light — before gardenia and tuberose take over and push the composition into fuller, creamier territory. The tuberose here is not sharp or camphorous; it leans soft and slightly narcotic, blending smoothly with the gardenia.
Sandalwood in the base adds a warm creaminess that amplifies the floral richness rather than pulling against it. Amber deepens the warmth, and musk keeps everything close to the skin and slightly animalic without becoming heavy.
The overall impression is a smooth, skin-warm white floral with enough sweetness from the pear and amber to feel comforting. It sits close rather than projecting broadly.
Scent twins
In this family
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