Sakura
Sakura opens with a fizzy citrus brightness — lime and bergamot lifted by pink pepper — that has more sparkle than tartness.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSakura opens with a fizzy citrus brightness — lime and bergamot lifted by pink pepper — that has more sparkle than tartness. There is a slight powdery sweetness underneath from the start, hinting at what comes next.
The heart is the perfume's intent: freesia, osmanthus, violet and rose woven into a soft, slightly fruit-tinged bouquet. The osmanthus pulls it toward apricot-skin, the violet toward powder, and nothing here insists on itself.
Tonka, sandalwood, vanilla and amber finish it with a clean, milky warmth, cedar keeping the sweetness in check and musk smoothing the edges. Sakura is exactly what its name suggests — a soft pink scent that reads romantic without sliding into candy.
Scent twins
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