Bucoliques de Provence
Bucoliques de Provence opens on a lavender that hasn't been smoothed into a candle scent — sharp, slightly camphoraceous, cut with juniper-berry resin so the aromatic edge stays present rather than soft.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Lavender85
- Leather60
- Iris55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Juniper Berry
- Juniper Berry
- Leather
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBucoliques de Provence opens on a lavender that hasn't been smoothed into a candle scent — sharp, slightly camphoraceous, cut with juniper-berry resin so the aromatic edge stays present rather than soft. The Seillans lavender (an absolute-and-essence blend) carries the composition rather than decorating it.
Underneath, an iris and leather accord pulls everything toward dusk. The leather is the worn, dry kind — saddle leather rather than glove — and iris adds a powdery, slightly metallic counterweight that keeps the lavender from going gourmand.
A Pellegrin composition built for people who want lavender treated seriously: pastoral, dry, and structured around a single material rather than buried in a chypre.
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.
