Flying
Petitgrain and bergamot open bittersweet and leafy, joined immediately by orange blossom for a moment that reads as bright cologne with a soft floral edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Moss
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and bergamot open bittersweet and leafy, joined immediately by orange blossom for a moment that reads as bright cologne with a soft floral edge. The effect is more transparent than indolic, more eau than perfume.
Ylang-ylang in the heart adds a creamier, slightly tropical roundness without weighing things down. The structure stays linear and airy through this stretch.
The base lands on moss and musk, which gives the drydown a quiet, slightly green skin-print rather than a heavy chypre. Overall this is a clean citrus-floral aromatic—warm-weather wearable, low projection, friendly to office rotation. The arc is short but cohesive: bright opening, soft middle, clean residue.
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.
