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 5 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.
- Musk55
- Rose45
- Caramel40
- Vanilla25
- Marine20
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.
