La Pluie
A clean, unfussy opening — lavender alongside bergamot.
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.
- Lavender60
- Earthy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readA clean, unfussy opening — lavender alongside bergamot. The lavender sits dry and herbal rather than soapy, and the bergamot keeps the citrus crisp.
The heart is a white-floral pair: jasmine and ylang-ylang. They lend creaminess and a faintly tropical warmth, but stay restrained — neither pushed into indolic territory nor candied.
Vetiver carries the drydown alone, smoky and rooty, lending a quiet earthiness that ties the composition back to the herbal opening. The result is a light, breathable fragrance suited to spring and summer days, casual or office wear, with enough composure to bridge into early evening.
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.
