Kintsugi
Magnolia opens with a clean lemony-floral brightness, joined by an immediate amber warmth and bergamot lift.
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.
- Rose50
- Ozonic50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Amber
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Suede
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens with a clean lemony-floral brightness, joined by an immediate amber warmth and bergamot lift. The pairing is unusual — fresh floral and resinous warmth striking at once, neither dominating.
Violet leaf threads green crispness through the heart while suede adds a soft leather underpinning and rose contributes a quiet pink floral. The mid-phase holds the contrast established at the top, between fresh and warm without committing to either pole.
Vanilla and patchouli close the arc with a soft cocoa-tinged base. The vanilla rounds the suede into a creamy warmth while the patchouli adds earthy weight. The dry-down stays close to skin, holding the suede-vanilla pairing as the dominant signal. Distinctive in opening, more conventional in close.
Scent twins
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