China White
China White opens with a stark, powdered leather that feels both clinical and ceremonial—a scent of gloves laid on marble, cold and uncompromising.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather95
- Powdery75
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readChina White opens with a stark, powdered leather that feels both clinical and ceremonial—a scent of gloves laid on marble, cold and uncompromising. There's a metallic edge that suggests polished steel or the interior of a locked case, while the powder softens nothing, instead making the leather feel more distant, almost untouchable.
As it settles, the composition remains austere. The leather never warms or becomes lived-in. It maintains its remote character, neither animalic nor comforting, existing in a space between the synthetic and the ritualistic. The powder lingers like talc on skin that hasn't been touched.
This is fragrance as statement rather than seduction—minimal, uncompromising, deliberately opaque. It suits those drawn to severity and abstraction, who find beauty in restraint rather than abundance.
Scent twins
In this family
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