Mod Noir
Jean Claude Delville opens with green-citrus brightness: yuzu and clementine provide tart citrus clarity, green notes suggesting fresh leaves.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Clementine
- Yuzu
- Gardenia
- Water Lily
- Tuberose
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readJean Claude Delville opens with green-citrus brightness: yuzu and clementine provide tart citrus clarity, green notes suggesting fresh leaves. The heart is the composition's reason for existing — gardenia is present and waxy, its characteristic cream-soap quality on full display; tuberose adds heady sweetness; magnolia and water lily contribute lighter, more luminous dimensions that prevent the whole from becoming dense. It's a well-arranged white floral quartet. The base lifts rather than anchors: nectarine adds peachy sweetness, orange blossom continues the white floral arc, and musk keeps everything skin-close and wearable. A modern white floral with better structural awareness than its breezy name implies.
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.
