Le Lilas
Pink pepper snaps open with a bright, rosy-spark snap that immediately tilts the composition toward fresh florals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper snaps open with a bright, rosy-spark snap that immediately tilts the composition toward fresh florals. Bulgarian rose takes center stage within minutes, its honeyed petals cushioned by jasmine’s indolic cream and freesia’s watery green, while violet adds a cool, powdered iris edge that keeps the heart from turning syrupy. Tonka bean in the base folds the bouquet into a faint almond-vanilla haze, softening projection and letting the florals hover just above skin rather than announce across a room. Wear time stretches to around six hours, the rose steadily shedding sweetness until only a clean, slightly soapy woodiness remains. Office-friendly in spring and early fall, it behaves best under light sweaters when cool air can lift the pepper and violet without amplifying sweetness.
Scent twins
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