L'Eau de Minuit
Anise and myrrh create a licorice-black opening that feels cool and slightly medicinal, the ivy adding a crushed-leaf bitterness that keeps the sweetness in check.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris80
- Powdery60
- Vanilla50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Myrrh
- Ivy
- Anise
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readAnise and myrrh create a licorice-black opening that feels cool and slightly medicinal, the ivy adding a crushed-leaf bitterness that keeps the sweetness in check. Jasmine enters early, its indolic breath softening the herbal edges while iris powders the heart with a dry, violet-tinged chalkiness that mutes the amber trail ahead. As the benzoin warms, it liquefies the tonka into a creamy almond paste; vanilla folds in, not dessert-like but smoky-dry, the musk keeping the finish close to skin with a clean, linen lift. Projection stays reserved, a whispered sillage that works best after dark or under thick winter coats when you want mystery without announcement.
Scent twins
In this family
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