Gala
Rosewood, bergamot, and lemon open with a woody-citrus freshness that fades quickly, revealing a classical floral heart of jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Balsamic70
- Yellow Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Rosewood
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRosewood, bergamot, and lemon open with a woody-citrus freshness that fades quickly, revealing a classical floral heart of jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley. Orange blossom and galbanum add a green, slightly bitter dimension that keeps the florals from reading as merely sweet.
The base is dense and animalic: castoreum and civet sit alongside labdanum and benzoin, producing a resinous, leather-edged warmth. Sandalwood and patchouli ground the resins, while vanilla and tonka bean add soft sweetness underneath. Cinnamon threads through the drydown with quiet spice.
The overall character is a richly animalic, amber-balsamic oriental with a full floral heart — structured, complex, and unmistakably vintage in sensibility.
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.
