Vepres Siciliennes
Magnolia and lily of the valley share the opening with grapefruit and orange, lifted further by cardamom—an unusual top that reads as bright floral-citrus with a powdered-spice glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Tuberose60
- Caramel60
- Coconut60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Oakmoss
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia and lily of the valley share the opening with grapefruit and orange, lifted further by cardamom—an unusual top that reads as bright floral-citrus with a powdered-spice glow. The structure is dense from the start.
The heart layers tuberose, jasmine, and ylang over oakmoss and amber, with heliotrope softening edges into a sweet-powdery effect. Rose and Virginia cedar add structure underneath the bouquet.
The base is where the perfume turns confectionery: coconut, raspberry, plum, peach, vanilla, caramel, and clove with osmanthus and musk. The drydown is creamy, fruit-jam sweet, and softly spiced. Overall the arc moves from luminous floral to dessert-tinged plush, projection moderate-to-strong.
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.
