Replica - Lipstick On
The opening is unmistakably waxy: heliotrope and orange blossom rendered with that pressed-powder, cosmetic-counter quality that gives the perfume its name.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Almond70
- Floral55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
- Galbanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unmistakably waxy: heliotrope and orange blossom rendered with that pressed-powder, cosmetic-counter quality that gives the perfume its name. Bergamot and neroli keep the top from turning syrupy, adding a brief citrus shimmer.
Galbanum cuts through the heart with a thin green stem, just enough astringency to keep the powder from feeling too sweet. Underneath, tonka bean smooths everything into a soft almond-vanillic warmth, and patchouli adds a quiet earthy depth — more cocoa-dust than dirt. The texture stays creamy and close, projecting at low volume but with stubborn persistence.
Overall the character is a soft-focus retro powder — almond, white florals, and a hint of waxen orange — sitting intimately on the skin like makeup left on a collar.
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.
