The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rose70
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Heliotrope
- Black Currant
- Blackberry
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLalique's Amethyst Exquise refines the original with a more pronounced berry-and-rose character. Raspberry, heliotrope, black currant, and blackberry form an opening that's sweet, slightly jammy, and powdery at the edges — the heliotrope's almond quality blending with the dark berry notes into something more complex than straightforward fruit. Bulgarian rose sits at the heart as the single structural element, full and unhurried, giving the composition its center of gravity.
Gardenia, sandalwood, benzoin, and vanilla build the base into a warm, creamy close that extends the sweetness into the drydown without abandoning it. The overall arc is feminine and accessible — a berry-rose-white floral that wears easily and stays consistent through the hours. The Lalique aesthetic is present throughout: refined, slightly romantic, squarely in the French floral oriental tradition.
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.
