Ortensia
Ortensia takes a flower with no real scent — the hortensia — and reverse-engineers a fantasy of one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Iris75
- Rose60
- Cherry30
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOrtensia takes a flower with no real scent — the hortensia — and reverse-engineers a fantasy of one. The opening is watery and slightly metallic-green, with violet, jasmine and rose stacked behind it. There is an honest attempt at "garden after rain" rather than the typical aquatic shortcut.
In the heart, heliotrope and ylang-ylang push it warmer and milkier, while bourbon geranium, artemisia and coriander keep an herbal edge that prevents the cream from going sweet. The drydown is a quiet powder: iris, sandalwood, white musk and a thread of vanilla. Worn in spring or office settings, it reads as composed and slightly cool — never dramatic, easy to wear close.
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.