Fleur Defendue
Fleur Défendue opens with mimosa's peculiar duality—honey-soft yet faintly green, like sunlit pollen caught in amber.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Powdery80
- Musky70
- Iris65
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Mimosa
- Peony
- Iris
- Violet
- Anise
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readFleur Défendue opens with mimosa's peculiar duality—honey-soft yet faintly green, like sunlit pollen caught in amber. This lightness carries into a heart where iris and violet bloom in powdered whispers, their coolness offset by anise's subtle spice. Peony adds a delicate flush, barely pink, more suggestion than statement.
The base shifts unexpectedly. Almond arrives not as gourmand sweetness but as something drier, almost chalky, wrapping around clean musk like talcum after a bath. This creates an effect both retro and dreamlike, recalling the soft-focus femininity of mid-century cosmetics without tipping into nostalgia.
A fragrance for those drawn to the whispered rather than the announced—skin-close, slightly strange, decidedly tender. Its gentle restraint feels deliberate, as if protecting something ephemeral from too much scrutiny.
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.
