Lalique de Lalique Cascade Crystal Flacon
Gardenia dominates the opening with a creamy, slightly waxy white-petal thrust that the blackberry’s tart juice immediately cuts to keep the bloom from turning cloying.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Black Currant
- Blackberry
- Magnolia
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia dominates the opening with a creamy, slightly waxy white-petal thrust that the blackberry’s tart juice immediately cuts to keep the bloom from turning cloying. The heart amplifies volume: magnolia’s cool lemon-tinged cream layers over Bulgarian rose’s honeyed spice, while ylang-ylang peony add banana-like sweetness and airy green facets that stop the bouquet from collapsing into heaviness. As the flowers accord settles, sandalwood cedar arrive together, drying the petals and inserting clean blond wood that lets the amber vanilla warm without pudding thickness. Oakmoss threads a quiet earthy bitterness through the late dry-down, so the finish reads as a soft, slightly fruity chypre rather than dessert. Projection stays within conversational distance for six hours, perfect for spring office days or cool summer weddings.
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.
