Volupte
Volupté arrives in melon and freesia — a combination that was still novel in 1992, giving the opening a transparent freshness before osmanthus and mimosa add apricot-tea and powdery-floral notes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Floral65
- Woody55
- Amber55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Mimosa
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readVolupté arrives in melon and freesia — a combination that was still novel in 1992, giving the opening a transparent freshness before osmanthus and mimosa add apricot-tea and powdery-floral notes. The heart is densely packed: jasmine rich and indolic, ylang-ylang creamy and tropical, heliotrope with its powdery almond-cherry quality, lily of the valley dewy and clean, peony softly pink, narcissus honeyed and dark. The base deepens into incense, tuberose, sandalwood, and patchouli — a serious oriental foundation that anchors the sunny floral top without absorbing it. A 90s white-floral oriental of genuine ambition.
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.
