Fleur Défendue Forbidden Flower
Peony and violet open together with a soft, slightly cool floral character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Almond90
- Violet70
- Sweet60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Violet
- Almond
- Musk
- Peony
- Violet
- Musk
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readPeony and violet open together with a soft, slightly cool floral character. Violet provides the more assertive edge while peony keeps things rounded and light. Anise runs beneath both, adding a faintly sweet, herbal quality that stops the florals from reading as purely conventional.
Almond emerges as the composition settles, pushing the profile into distinctly gourmand territory without becoming confectionery-heavy. The musk here is close and skin-like rather than projecting, blending with almond into something warm and softly sweet.
Overall this is a gentle, almond-forward floral — compact and linear but not uninteresting. It wears close to the skin and suits casual or relaxed daytime contexts in spring or summer.
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.