Tenderly
Tenderly opens with a quiet softness — clover's green sweetness alongside mandarin blossom's gentle citrus and blackberry's muted dark-fruit note set a mood that is never assertive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Vanilla60
- Herbal50
- Woody45
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Clover
- Mandarin Blossom
- Blackberry
- Blackberry
- Poppy
- Chamomile
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readTenderly opens with a quiet softness — clover's green sweetness alongside mandarin blossom's gentle citrus and blackberry's muted dark-fruit note set a mood that is never assertive. The heart is its most interesting chapter: magnolia and orchid provide a soft white floral core while chamomile adds an almost herbal warmth and poppy contributes a barely-there delicacy. The dry-down pulls everything into sandalwood and heliotrope territory, the powdery base drawing the composition close to skin within an hour or two. Vanilla keeps the ending sweet without becoming cloying. A quiet, undemanding fragrance suited to casual daily wear, particularly in spring and early summer.
Scent twins
In this family
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