Champaca
Champaca opens with a bright clash—neroli's bitter citrus peel meeting the snap of pink pepper, softened by an almost aqueous bamboo accord that feels more vegetal than green.
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.
- Citrus55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bamboo
- Bamboo
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readChampaca opens with a bright clash—neroli's bitter citrus peel meeting the snap of pink pepper, softened by an almost aqueous bamboo accord that feels more vegetal than green. The effect is clean but not soapy, aromatic without turning sharp. There's an unexpected resinous depth that appears early, likely the myrrh, grounding what could have been a fleeting cologne into something more deliberate.
As it settles, freesia emerges with its characteristic soapy-floral transparency, threading through the composition without dominating. The musk in the base is pale and skin-close, more about texture than scent—it creates a veil rather than a statement. The bamboo lingers as a faint woody whisper.
This is a study in restraint, built for someone who wants presence without announcement. It feels both polished and private, suited to warm weather but substantial enough to hold through a full day. The effect is less about perfume-as-accessory and more about an olfactory extension of composure.
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.
