Noa Noa
Mint, grapefruit, and galbanum create a sharp, green-citrus opening with a cool, slightly bitter edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy80
- Floral60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Mint
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Grapefruit
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readMint, grapefruit, and galbanum create a sharp, green-citrus opening with a cool, slightly bitter edge. As the top fades, jasmine, heliotrope, and rose build a soft floral heart that tilts powdery through the heliotrope — almond-adjacent without being sweet. Cedar and patchouli add dry structure underneath.
The base is genuinely rich: oakmoss and benzoin bring mossy, resinous depth, while tonka bean, vanilla, and amber layer on a warm, slightly gourmand softness. Musk ties it together. The full arc is wide — green and tart up top, powdery floral in the middle, warm and mossy at the bottom. A composition with clear vintage character and real developmental movement.
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.
