Narciso
The opening is deceptively simple—a pale gardenia that never shouts, never goes tropical.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Musky95
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Bulgarian Rose
- Peony
- Rose
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is deceptively simple—a pale gardenia that never shouts, never goes tropical. It hovers close to the skin, almost transparent, as if the flower has been distilled down to its quietest whisper. This restraint defines the entire composition.
Within minutes, the musk emerges, not animalic or powdery but almost mineral in its smoothness. It wraps around the gardenia without swallowing it, creating something between a white floral and a skin scent. The vetiver and cedar in the base add just enough structure to prevent this from floating away entirely, grounding it without weighing it down.
This is perfume for someone who wants to smell intentional but not loud, refined but not formal. It sits in that narrow band between presence and absence—close enough that you notice it on yourself, distant enough that others have to lean in. A study in controlled intimacy.
Scent twins
In this family
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.