Haecceitas
Freesia opens cool and green, its watery petal scent immediately laying down a sheer, almost aquatic layer that feels like morning dew on stone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Iris
- Moss
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia opens cool and green, its watery petal scent immediately laying down a sheer, almost aquatic layer that feels like morning dew on stone. The heart pulls iris forward, not powdery but root-damp, carrot-seed earthiness pressed against the still-luminous freesia so the floral edges blur into soft grey suede. Vanilla arrives early, warming the iris while oakmoss creeps underneath, stitching the flowers to skin with a low, mineral bitterness that stops the accord from drifting into cosmetics. Over hours the vanilla thickens, turning the iris creamy and the moss translucent, leaving a pale, slightly salty skin-trace that smells like wet marble at dusk. Projection stays close, a whispered iris veil perfect for cool spring offices or rainy autumn walks where you want elegance without announcement.
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.
