Bella Essence
Opens on a tart-sweet pairing of raspberry and grapefruit, the citrus cutting the fruit so it never tips into syrup.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Rose
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readOpens on a tart-sweet pairing of raspberry and grapefruit, the citrus cutting the fruit so it never tips into syrup. A small flicker of pink pepper sits behind, sharpening the entry rather than warming it.
The heart is a familiar shape — jasmine and rose threaded through vanilla — but the vanilla is dosed lightly enough to read as creamy support for the florals rather than a gourmand pivot. The base is where the modern signature lives: ambroxan provides a dry, transparent warmth, patchouli adds a clean dirt-edge, and musk closes the structure smoothly.
The overall character is bright and contemporary, sweet without going saccharine, comfortable across seasons.
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.
