Sampaquita
Magnolia leads the opening — clean, lemon-tinged, with a green snap of cut grass and bergamot lifting it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
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- White Floral50
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- Green
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Magnolia
- Lychee
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Grass
- Grass
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia leads the opening — clean, lemon-tinged, with a green snap of cut grass and bergamot lifting it. The first ten minutes feel almost crystalline before jasmine and lily of the valley fold in, joined by freesia's metallic hush and a soft pink rose.
The base is what gives the composition its weight: oakmoss draws a quiet chypre line under the florals, vetiver brings damp earth, and a pale musk smooths the edges so nothing feels brittle. The whole thing reads less like a sweet bouquet than like a hothouse interior — humid air, wet stems, polished wood floors.
Longevity is moderate. It sits well in spring and warm summer afternoons; cold weather flattens its top.
Scent twins
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