Nina (1987)
The opening arrives like a bowl of fresh peaches placed next to a bouquet of orange blossom and basil—summery, uncomplicated, with a green herbal edge that keeps the fruit from turning syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Floral65
- Fruity60
- Woody55
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives like a bowl of fresh peaches placed next to a bouquet of orange blossom and basil—summery, uncomplicated, with a green herbal edge that keeps the fruit from turning syrupy. The citrus notes provide brightness without dominating, while mimosa adds a subtle powdery sweetness that hints at what's to come.
As it settles, the heart reveals a classic floral bouquet where jasmine and ylang-ylang take center stage, supported by rose and violet. The florals feel naturally blended rather than constructed, with an underlying violet-iris softness that gives the composition a slightly old-fashioned, genteel character. It's feminine in the way eighties perfumery understood the term—unambiguous and full-bodied.
The base brings oakmoss and sandalwood into play, grounding the florals with a proper chypre structure, while civet adds warmth and subtle animalic depth. The result is a perfume that feels poised between fresh daytime optimism and evening elegance, designed for a woman who wanted fragrance that announced itself without apology.
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.
