Empress
Orange and grapefruit introduce a bright, juicy citrus burst that feels almost candied against bergamot's faint metallic edge.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and grapefruit introduce a bright, juicy citrus burst that feels almost candied against bergamot's faint metallic edge. Jasmine sweeps in quickly, lifting the fruit into a clean, shampoo-like floral heart while rose adds a soft, pink-petaled roundness that keeps the accord from turning sharp. Tonka bean and vanilla merge into a warm, almond-cream base, sandalwood lending a dry, blond wood frame and patchouli contributing a light cocoa-earth shading that prevents sugary collapse. Within two hours the musk emerges, pulling the composition close to skin and filtering the earlier brightness through a fuzzy, pastel veil. Projection drops to whisper range yet a sweet citrus-wood trail lingers on fabric. Office-friendly and spring-summer weighted, it behaves like a lighter, creamier flanker of the patchouli-vanilla cohort around it.
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.
