Femme de Montblanc
The opening strikes an unusual balance: tropical pineapple sweetness pierced by warm spice, cardamom and cinnamon lending an almost mulled quality to the citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes an unusual balance: tropical pineapple sweetness pierced by warm spice, cardamom and cinnamon lending an almost mulled quality to the citrus. It's immediately gourmand but not cloying, the spice providing structure where many fruit-forward compositions collapse into syrup.
As it settles, white florals emerge—jasmine and orange blossom tempered by heliotrope's powdery almond softness. The heart never quite sheds the fruit, though. Peach and raspberry linger at the edges, creating a floral-fruity hybrid that feels more late-nineties than mid-2000s, recalling the era when department store feminines favored lush accessibility over minimalism.
The base is where vetiver and patchouli attempt to ground the sweetness, though amber and musk keep things plush. This is a fragrance for someone who wants presence without severity—warm, approachable, distinctly feminine in the classical sense. It wears like confidence expressed through comfort rather than edge.
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.
