French Lilac
French Lilac opens with a soft, powdery sweetness that leans closer to heliotrope than to actual lilac blooms.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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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- Green50
- Floral50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readFrench Lilac opens with a soft, powdery sweetness that leans closer to heliotrope than to actual lilac blooms. There's a marshmallow-like quality to the opening, vaguely floral but primarily almond-tinged and clean. The ylang-ylang stays subdued, contributing a faint tropical warmth rather than any heady richness.
As it settles, the fragrance maintains its gentle, almost soapy character—the kind of clean powder you might associate with vintage cosmetics or talc-dusted skin. It never reaches for photorealism or depth, content to remain a sheer, nostalgic veil.
This is for those who want the idea of lilac without the green stems or indolic shadows. It's uncomplicated, budget-friendly, and wears like a soft-focus memory of spring rather than spring itself.
Scent twins
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