Coeur Joie
Gardenia dominates the opening, its creamy lactonic heft weighted by neroli’s bittersweet edge, so the white-flower blast feels almost oily before bergamot slices a thin citrus channel through the center.
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.
- Lactonic70
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia dominates the opening, its creamy lactonic heft weighted by neroli’s bittersweet edge, so the white-flower blast feels almost oily before bergamot slices a thin citrus channel through the center. Jasmine and rose bloom next, softening the gardenia’s waxiness while violet adds a cool, powdery haze that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Vetiver threads the heart with dry grass, pulling the florals away from bridal territory and grounding them on skin; amber slowly warms the base, lending a honeyed glow that lets musk radiate rather than whisper. After two hours the flowers fold into the amber-musk cushion, leaving a close, suede-lipped skin scent that still carries a faint gardenia glimmer. Projection stays polite, office-friendly, yet the lactonic richness reads best in mild spring or early fall weather when humidity can coax the petals open.
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.