French Defense
Mimosa leads with a powdery, slightly honeyed yellow-floral quality — soft and fuzzy rather than sharp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Yellow Floral85
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mimosa
- Rose
- Amber
- Amber
- Mimosa
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMimosa leads with a powdery, slightly honeyed yellow-floral quality — soft and fuzzy rather than sharp. Rose enters alongside it, lending a familiar floral structure without dominating. The two notes occupy a similar register: warm, softly diffuse, with a dusty edge that keeps the opening from reading as fruity or fresh.
Amber ties everything together at the base, adding resinous warmth and a low sweetness that rounds off the composition. There is no significant progression — the scent reads as fairly linear, staying in this amber-floral space from start to finish.
The overall character is a warm, approachable floral amber — light enough for daytime wear but amber-rich enough to carry into a relaxed evening setting.
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.
