Cucumber
Bamboo snaps open with a crisp, watery green edge that feels like snapping a stalk in half, releasing a faintly mineral sap.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Musky80
- Green70
- Aquatic60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bamboo
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBamboo snaps open with a crisp, watery green edge that feels like snapping a stalk in half, releasing a faintly mineral sap. Lily of the valley slides in almost immediately, adding a dewy white-floral lift that keeps the bamboo from turning too earthy while freesia contributes a clean, slightly soapy petal softness. The heart is an airy green-floral accord that stays translucent, never powdery or sweet. Musk arrives late as a sheer white haze, blunting the greens and flattening the florals into skin-close linen rather than heavy cotton. Projection stays within handshake distance for three hours before collapsing to a soft, salty skin whisper. Perfect for muggy summer commutes when you want to smell shower-fresh rather than perfumed.
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Scent twins
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