French Lavender
Lavender and rose open together in a restrained, slightly formal pairing — the lavender herbal and cool, the rose providing familiar floral warmth.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rose
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and rose open together in a restrained, slightly formal pairing — the lavender herbal and cool, the rose providing familiar floral warmth. Iris arrives at the heart and adds a powdery, rooty quality that bridges the two opening notes into a soft, cosmetic register.
Tonka bean, amber, and musk in the base wrap the composition in warm, gently sweet drydown. The tonka reinforces the iris's almond-powder quality and the amber adds quiet depth without heaviness. The overall character is tidy and composed — a classic lavender-iris-rose structure built for daytime wear, linear in development, close to the skin.
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.
