Blanche Bête
The name promises a contradiction—white and animal—and the fragrance delivers.
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.
- Tuberose85
- Floral75
- Chocolate70
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Tonka Bean
- Cocoa
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe name promises a contradiction—white and animal—and the fragrance delivers. A heavy white floral opens with tuberose and jasmine that feel almost too lush, their indolic weight hovering just this side of decay. Beneath the petals, incense smoke threads through, not as purification but as complicity, deepening the flower's musky undertones rather than lifting them skyward.
As it settles, tonka and vanilla arrive to smooth the edges without sweetening excessively. The musk remains present throughout, giving the composition a skin-like warmth that keeps it tethered to the body rather than floating ethereal. This is white flowers seen through a veil of smoke and skin—baroque in its density, unapologetic in its sensuality.
For those who find most white florals too clean or too polite, this offers a murkier alternative. It wears close and demands attention without announcing itself across a room.
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.
