Carmel Snow
Petitgrain and lime crack open with a bitter-green sparkle that peach softens into a fuzzy, sun-warmed skin effect, while orange blossom lifts the accord into airy white petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus70
- Green60
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lime
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and lime crack open with a bitter-green sparkle that peach softens into a fuzzy, sun-warmed skin effect, while orange blossom lifts the accord into airy white petals. The heart swaps fruit for saffron’s hay-leather dryness, laying it over lily of the valley’s watery green bell shape and a snap of fresh-cut grass, so the composition stays bright but gains an iodine-like mineral edge. Violet lands next, powdering the terrain and bridging to cedar in the base, where amber spreads a low, resinous glow and clean musk shears off any residual sweetness. Wear it loose: the scent stays close, projecting no farther than a linen sleeve, yet lingers past sunset, perfect for breezy spring cafés or humid summer galleries where you want intrigue without announcement.
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.
