Une Histoire de Femme Sensuelle
Mauboussin's Une Histoire de Femme Sensuelle works with a deliberately short palette: praline, freesia, rose, white musk — four notes, nothing more.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musky55
- Lactonic50
- Nutty50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Praline
- Freesia
- Rose
- White Musk
- Freesia
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMauboussin's Une Histoire de Femme Sensuelle works with a deliberately short palette: praline, freesia, rose, white musk — four notes, nothing more. The praline opens as a caramelized warmth that's softened almost immediately by freesia's green-aquatic freshness, keeping things from veering into gourmand territory. Rose in the heart is light and slightly watery, more impression than declaration.
White musk in the base is clean and close-wearing, pulling the composition into skin-scent range by the drydown. The intentional minimalism is the point — this is a fragrance designed for proximity, for leaning in rather than projecting. Comfortable and quietly sensual, suited to day-to-evening transitions.
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.
