Water Lily
Water Lily opens on pink grapefruit and pomegranate — a sharper, tart citrus paired with a faintly metallic fruit that reads as cool rather than sweet.
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.
- Marine55
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Pink Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Water Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Water Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readWater Lily opens on pink grapefruit and pomegranate — a sharper, tart citrus paired with a faintly metallic fruit that reads as cool rather than sweet. The intent is clearly summery and aquatic.
The heart is water lily and water jasmine, an obvious play on aqueous florals: dewy, transparent, almost vegetal at the edges. Sandalwood and musk close the composition softly, holding the dewdrop character all the way down rather than veering creamy.
This is a lean, daytime fragrance with low ambition and clear intent — pool, beach, errands in heat. It fits someone who wants a refresher rather than a signature.
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.
