Essence
Bergamot and freesia open with a clean, slightly citrus-tinged brightness that fades quickly into the heart.
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.
- Iris60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and freesia open with a clean, slightly citrus-tinged brightness that fades quickly into the heart. Gardenia and orange blossom come forward as soft white florals — neither heady nor sharp, keeping the composition in restrained territory. Iris introduces a quiet powdery quality that anchors the floral phase.
Benzoin and sandalwood form a smooth, lightly resinous base beneath the musk, adding warmth without weight. The musk stays close to skin throughout.
The overall effect is a soft white-floral with powdery depth — clean enough for daytime, warm enough for cooler evenings. It reads as understated and wearable rather than statement-making.
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.
