Very Hollywood
Very Hollywood opens with a bright slash of raspberry against crisp bergamot, sweet but not cloying, like sunlight through tinted glass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readVery Hollywood opens with a bright slash of raspberry against crisp bergamot, sweet but not cloying, like sunlight through tinted glass. The fruit dissolves quickly into a billowing white floral heart—gardenia dominates, waxy and full-bodied, with jasmine and ylang-ylang adding depth without competing for attention. There's a retro glamour to the composition, reminiscent of Hollywood Regency interiors: bold, unambiguous, unapologetically feminine.
The base brings unexpected structure. Oakmoss and vetiver anchor the florals with a mossy, slightly bitter edge that keeps the sweetness in check, while amber adds warmth without turning the whole thing into dessert. This is not a subtle fragrance—it projects confidence and occupies space. Best suited to someone who wants to be noticed without saying a word, who understands that sometimes more is exactly right.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
