Marc Jacobs Cucumber Splash 2016
A clean, water-bright opening built around bamboo — green and slightly waxy, without sharpness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh90
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Bamboo
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA clean, water-bright opening built around bamboo — green and slightly waxy, without sharpness. Lily of the valley and freesia keep the floral heart transparent rather than heady, lending a slightly powdery freshness that sits close to a dewy garden rather than a perfume counter.
As it settles, the musk takes over without much drama, pulling everything toward skin level. The overall effect is light and uncomplicated — the kind of scent that reads as freshly showered rather than deliberately fragrant. It won't project far or last long, but that restraint is clearly the point.
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.
