Inspira
Gardenia arrives first, creamy and slightly waxy, projecting a white-floral creaminess that feels lactonic rather than sharply green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia arrives first, creamy and slightly waxy, projecting a white-floral creaminess that feels lactonic rather than sharply green. The heart stays focused on that gardenia, but within minutes vanilla rises through the petals, turning the bloom into a soft, sweet custard sheened with coconut-like warmth. Cedar follows, dry and pencil-sharp, splitting the sweetness so the scent never cloys; the wood also gives the gardenia a tactile white-petals-on-wood backdrop. Musk settles close to skin, feathering the edges of vanilla into a clean, powdery aura that lingers for hours without growing louder. Projection stays modest, creating a gentle cloud no wider than arm’s length; sillage is polite enough for open offices yet persistent enough to trace on scarves. Cool spring days and early fall evenings fit best, anywhere you want a creamy floral that whispers rather than shouts.
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.
