Osmanthus
Osmanthus opens fruity rather than floral — the apricot-and-leather facet of the flower comes forward first, with a quiet citrus polish behind it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Rose30
- Patchouli30
- Honey25
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Apricot
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readOsmanthus opens fruity rather than floral — the apricot-and-leather facet of the flower comes forward first, with a quiet citrus polish behind it. There's a slight tea-leaf dryness that keeps the early stages from going jammy.
Through the heart, osmanthus settles in fully, joined by a soft rose and a green undertone that prevents the apricot from saturating. The base is restrained — a clean musk and a thread of woody warmth — which leaves the flower in focus longer than the typical osmanthus composition. Skin-close, polite, and best in cooler spring weather where its fruity edge reads as freshness rather than syrup. Quiet on the wearer; lovely in close conversation.
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.
