Sortilège
The opening reads classic and sunlit, ylang giving a creamy yellow-floral warmth while lily of the valley adds a green, slightly aldehydic shimmer beside it.
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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Strawberry
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads classic and sunlit, ylang giving a creamy yellow-floral warmth while lily of the valley adds a green, slightly aldehydic shimmer beside it. The first minutes feel old-world bright.
The heart unfolds into a layered bouquet, jasmine, mimosa, narcissus, rose and iris share the centre, the iris pulling everything toward powder, the mimosa sweetening the honey-yellow side. It reads as a perfumer's bouquet rather than any single flower.
Sandalwood, vetiver and labdanum land the close warm and softly resinous, amber and musk smoothing things into skin. Overall the character is a powdery floral aldehyde, refined and quietly nostalgic, suited to formal cool-weather wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
