Pure Sensual Orchid
Neroli and star anise launch together: the blossom’s bright soapiness sliced by the spice’s black-licorice edge, while almond milk softens the opening into a creamy, faintly oily haze.
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 Floral70
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Star Anise
- Almond
- Saffron
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and star anise launch together: the blossom’s bright soapiness sliced by the spice’s black-licorice edge, while almond milk softens the opening into a creamy, faintly oily haze. Ylang-ylang surges in the heart, its banana-laced custard richness coating heliotrope’s marzipan dust and peony’s pale petals, turning the accord into a velvety yellow floral confection lightly salted by saffron’s leathery whisper. Vanilla thickens as amberwood’s dry, musky woods rise, pulling the sweetness onto a rougher plank; labdanum resin and benzoin add a honeyed, incense-like glow that keeps the cream from turning sugary. Oakmoss quietly shadows the base, lending a cool, earthy crumble that lengthens the dry-down and stops the composition from fully collapsing into dessert territory. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, ideal for cool spring evenings or a relaxed dinner date.
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.