Ruffles
A maximalist mid-80s floral that pursues abundance without apology.
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.
- Tuberose70
- Vanilla60
- Honey50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readA maximalist mid-80s floral that pursues abundance without apology. Orange blossom and bergamot open with enough lift to keep the heart from feeling immediately heavy, but the heart arrives fast.
What follows is a six-flower bouquet — tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, iris, rose — layered the way a corsage is layered, with iris adding a cool powdery cut so the white florals don't fuse into a single block. The structure breathes more than it should given the density.
The base goes deeper still: sandalwood and cedar for a creamy-dry frame, vanilla and honey and a touch of caramel for sweet warmth, civet for animalic shadow, musk to thread it together. The overall character is opulent and theatrical, cool-weather wear with full presence.
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.
