Charmes Secrets: Fleur de Tendresse
Petitgrain, lily of the valley, and rose open with a delicate, slightly green floral character — the petitgrain lending a faint bitterness that prevents the rose from reading sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain, lily of the valley, and rose open with a delicate, slightly green floral character — the petitgrain lending a faint bitterness that prevents the rose from reading sweet.
Jasmine and violet form the heart. The violet pushes the composition toward a powdery, slightly retro quality, while jasmine softens with a creamier white-floral presence. The development stays gentle throughout, never reaching for volume.
Iris, Virginia cedar, and musk close the composition. Iris extends the powdery character into the base, with cedar adding a dry woody anchor and musk holding everything close to skin. The overall impression is a powdery floral with iris and violet at its center. Springtime wear and quieter daytime contexts suit it.
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.
