Red Lips
Blood orange lands bright and almost candied, its sweet-tart zest slicing quickly through the air.
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.
- Citrus60
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange lands bright and almost candied, its sweet-tart zest slicing quickly through the air. Gardenia and ylang-ylang arrive together within minutes, merging into a creamy white floral layer that muffles the citrus edges and adds a faintly tropical, almost sunscreen-like creaminess. The ylang supplies an oily banana facet, while gardenia keeps the bouquet softly rounded and slightly waxy. Musk in the base is present from early on, a clean white musk that steers the composition away from indolic heaviness and toward something shower-fresh. Over hours the orange fades to a ghost sparkle, leaving a skin-close veil of sweet white petals laid over laundry musk. Projection stays polite, perfect for humid summer days when you want a creamy floral that never shouts.
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.
