Parfum d'Elle
Opens with a tropical-fresh slap: ginger and melon over lime, lemon, and bergamot, sweet and slightly aquatic at the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Tuberose70
- Tobacco70
- White Floral65
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Melon
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a tropical-fresh slap: ginger and melon over lime, lemon, and bergamot, sweet and slightly aquatic at the edges. The fruit register pulls the citrus toward something more 1990s mall-boutique than classic cologne.
The heart is dense white floral: tuberose pushed forward with ylang-ylang's banana-spice warmth and lily of the valley brightness. Big, creamy, and unmistakably feminine in the constructed retro sense.
The drydown is where the period really shows. Tobacco wraps tonka and vanilla against an oakmoss-amber-cedar base, building a sweet-smoky warmth that reads as plush evening jacket. Heavy projection, long arc, and built for the kind of dressed-up nights that warrant declaring yourself across a room.
Scent twins
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