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Lemon and bergamot create a bright citrus opening that feels clean rather than juicy, setting up a crisp white-floral heart where jasmine dominates with its cool green nuance while lily-of-the-valley adds watery transparency and freesia contributes a subtle peppery lift.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot create a bright citrus opening that feels clean rather than juicy, setting up a crisp white-floral heart where jasmine dominates with its cool green nuance while lily-of-the-valley adds watery transparency and freesia contributes a subtle peppery lift. The woods arrive early, with cedar's pencil-sharp dryness threading through the florals before sandalwood's creamy warmth softens the edges in the dry-down. Amber and musk form a skin-close base that stays light, never sweet, keeping the composition in the fresh-laundry realm rather than oriental territory. Projection remains office-friendly for the first three hours, then settles into a clean cotton skin scent perfect for work or humid summer days. The overall effect is freshly showered rather than perfume, making it an easy grab for casual daytime wear when you want to smell put-together without announcing fragrance.
Scent twins
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