Madame
Gardenia opens creamy and waxen, its tropical heft pinned by sharper lily and peppery freesia.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Freesia
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens creamy and waxen, its tropical heft pinned by sharper lily and peppery freesia. Ylang-ylang folds a banana-like custard into the heart, while rose keeps the white bouquet from turning sugary. Jasmine intensifies the humid facet, but plum and peach add dark, slightly tart flesh that drags the florals toward bruised fruit skin. Iris arrives early, dusting the petals with cool violet powder; tonka softens patchouli’s earth into a toasted almond sweetness that lingers on clothes. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting feminine and plush for cool spring evenings or polished daytime work.
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.




