Couture
Bergamot opens cleanly, as it does for half the florals of the early 2000s, then makes way quickly for the fruit-floral core: pomegranate here is sharp and tart rather than jammy, propping up jasmine's rich indolic bloom and peony's powder-pink register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral60
- Vanilla55
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Pomegranate
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly, as it does for half the florals of the early 2000s, then makes way quickly for the fruit-floral core: pomegranate here is sharp and tart rather than jammy, propping up jasmine's rich indolic bloom and peony's powder-pink register. The base is where Couture develops interest — benzoin and vanilla give a resinous, almost edible warmth, and cedar adds enough dryness to prevent the whole from tipping saccharine. It's an office-appropriate feminine of its time, competently built around a recognizable early-aughts formula: sheer floral wrapped in light amber sweetness. Not transgressive, but well-proportioned and honest about what it is.
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.
