Azalée
The opening bursts with the plush sweetness of peach softened by freesia's aqueous greenness—a brief, dewy moment before the florals assert themselves.
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.
- Floral70
- Woody65
- Fruity65
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with the plush sweetness of peach softened by freesia's aqueous greenness—a brief, dewy moment before the florals assert themselves. Bergamot keeps things from tipping too heavily into fruit salad territory, lending just enough brightness to balance the composition's creamy ambitions.
What follows is unapologetically white floral: gardenia takes center stage with jasmine and rose in close support, creating a dense, honeyed bouquet that hovers between fresh-cut stems and waxy petals. The gardenia here is indolic but not oppressive, more soap-scented skin than funeral parlor.
By drydown, sandalwood and amber warm the florals into something rounder and quieter, while musk adds a soft-focus glow. Patchouli appears as texture rather than statement—earthy enough to ground all that brightness without announcing itself. This is straightforward feminine luxury: approachable, generous with its sillage, suited to anyone who wants their presence noticed without raising their voice.
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.
