Pretty Flamingo
Heliotrope opens with a soft almond-like powder that immediately blankets the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Powdery80
- Iris70
- Sweet60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Musk
- White Musk
- Benzoin
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with a soft almond-like powder that immediately blankets the skin. Iris joins within minutes, adding a cool, carrot-root earthiness that keeps the heliotrope from turning overly sweet. White musk in the heart amplifies the clean-laundry facet while benzoin supplies a light resinous backdrop, letting the iris-powder accord hover rather than collapse into pastry. As the opening softens, tonka bean folds in a faint hay note that bridges to the amber-coloured base where caramel provides rounded warmth without sticky syrupiness. The dry-down stays close, a skin-hugging veil of powdered sugar, amber and musk that reads more fabric-sachet than gourmand. Projection sits at arm’s length for three hours then retreats to the collar; office-safe yet cozy enough for cool spring days or indoor winter wear.
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.
