Qi
Qi opens cool and dewy, neroli and freesia drawn over the skin with the clarity of a watercolor wash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Violet
- Rose
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readQi opens cool and dewy, neroli and freesia drawn over the skin with the clarity of a watercolor wash. There is no fanfare; the green-petal brightness simply settles in.
In the heart, osmanthus turns the perfume apricot-leathery, threaded with a powdery violet and a clean, almost transparent rose. The shift is slow and deliberate, more inflection than transformation.
The base does the unexpected work: myrrh and benzoin lend a balsamic, almost incense-warm shadow under the moss, and the musk closes everything with a soft hum. It reads quietly cosmopolitan — the kind of fragrance worn by someone who treats restraint as a form of confidence.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
