The Botanist
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a sharp, clean citrus that moves quickly into the floral heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Pink Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a sharp, clean citrus that moves quickly into the floral heart. Lily of the valley and peony give a cool, watery floral quality — light and transparent rather than heavy or indolic. Pink pepper adds a quiet warmth without tipping the opening into spice territory.
Rose and ambergris emerge in the middle transition, rounding out the floral with a soft smoothness. The combination reads as polished and airy — structured enough to avoid being generic, but accessible in character.
Vetiver and musk settle into a clean, slightly earthy base. The overall impression is a fresh floral with a light citrus backbone — bright, relatively linear, and suited to warmer months and daytime contexts.
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.
