Chardonnay
Orange and bergamot create a bright, slightly sweet citrus opening that feels more candied than zesty.
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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot create a bright, slightly sweet citrus opening that feels more candied than zesty. Jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive quickly, folding the citrus into a creamy white-floral heart that smells like orange blossom honey left in the sun. Vanilla pushes the composition toward dessert, while cedar tries to tack it back to wood; the tug-of-war keeps the fragrance from collapsing into pure sugar. On skin the musk emerges last, turning the earlier sweetness into a clean skin scent with faint wood shavings. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of its life, making it office-safe yet still noticeable. Best suited to spring afternoons and casual coffee dates when you want comfort without heft.
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.
