L'Air du Temps Eau de Parfum
The eau de parfum concentration of L'Air du Temps reads heavier and more resinous than the toilette.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose70
- Iris60
- Amber45
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe eau de parfum concentration of L'Air du Temps reads heavier and more resinous than the toilette. Neroli, bergamot, and peach open softer — the aldehydes that mark the original sit further back here — and the iris-and-rose heart is pushed forward, with ylang-ylang and lily rounding it out.
The base is where the EdP earns its name: sandalwood, benzoin, ambergris, vetiver, cedar, and musk arrive sooner and project longer than in the toilette. There's a faint smoky-resinous warmth threading the drydown that softens the carnation-spice edge of the original.
It's the same composition wearing a thicker coat — a cool-weather take on a hallmark floral, deeper and slower to evolve.
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.