Why Not a Fougère
Pear and pink pepper open with a light fruit-spice combination that registers as clean and modern before bergamot adds familiar citrus support.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Magnolia
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readPear and pink pepper open with a light fruit-spice combination that registers as clean and modern before bergamot adds familiar citrus support. The heart is aromatic and herbal: sage, lavender, and violet form a classical fougère core while magnolia softens it with a slightly creamy floral quality.
Tonka bean, patchouli, and narcissus anchor the base. Osmanthus adds a faint apricot-leather nuance, and musk keeps the drydown skin-level and soft. A listed leather accord in the general notes adds a suede-like depth.
Why Not a Fougère earns its name — it behaves like a fougère but bends the rules with fruit, florals, and osmanthus. The lavender-tonka-patchouli axis is the backbone, working well in cool weather.
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.
