Naomagic
The opening arrives with a spiced citrus clarity—bergamot sharpened by cardamom's green heat, softened almost immediately by violet's powdery flutter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives with a spiced citrus clarity—bergamot sharpened by cardamom's green heat, softened almost immediately by violet's powdery flutter. It's a brief, polite introduction before the perfume settles into its true character: a creamy almond-jasmine heart that feels simultaneously retro and approachable. The violet persists here, lending a soapy, almost nostalgic quality that some will find comforting, others dated.
What emerges in the base is a textbook late-nineties construction: tonka and vanilla forming a sweet, slightly buttery foundation, with sandalwood and musk adding just enough wood to keep it from turning entirely confectionary. The overall effect is warm, uncomplicated, and unapologetically feminine in the turn-of-the-millennium sense—closer to a well-made department store staple than a statement fragrance.
Best suited to those who appreciate clean florals with a sweet, skin-close finish. It doesn't demand attention, but wears easily in casual settings where subtlety matters more than projection.
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.
