Wild Cherry
The opening is a brief citrus shimmer—lemon and bergamot flashing across the surface—before a thick, powdery heart takes over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Powdery65
- Almond50
- Fruity50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brief citrus shimmer—lemon and bergamot flashing across the surface—before a thick, powdery heart takes over. Heliotrope dominates here, bringing its almond-marzipan sweetness forward with the weight of vintage face powder. Jasmine adds subtle floralcy, while orris and iris deepen the powder effect into something dense and retro. Patchouli lurks underneath, earthy but muted.
As it settles, vanilla and white musk blend into the heliotrope, creating a soft, enveloping sweetness that never quite turns gourmand. The powder remains central throughout, anchored by just enough patchouli to keep it from floating away entirely.
This is a fragrance for those drawn to powdery florals with substance—not sheer or minimalist, but round and present. It feels both nostalgic and deliberately composed, closer to a vintage cosmetic vanity than to fresh fruit or modern cherry accords. The name suggests something else entirely; what you get is heliotrope in full bloom.
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.
