Paloma Picasso
A grand floral chypre that arrives with the weight of old rosewood furniture and pressed velvet.
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.
- Patchouli90
- Floral80
- Rose75
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readA grand floral chypre that arrives with the weight of old rosewood furniture and pressed velvet. The opening neroli and rose feel dusted in something dark—patchouli emerges almost immediately, threading through the florals like smoke through silk. This isn't the polite jasmine of lighter perfumes; it's dense, indolic, unapologetic.
As it settles, the ylang-ylang and mimosa thicken into a honeyed, powdery heart that hovers between opulent and austere. The base pulls everything earthward: vetiver and sandalwood provide structure, while castoreum and musk add animalic warmth that feels less sensual than architectural, like marble heated by afternoon sun.
This is fragrance as statement piece—bold, uncompromising, designed for someone who understands that presence doesn't require volume. It wears heavy without feeling cloying, formal without coldness. A relic of 1980s maximalism that refuses to fade quietly.
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.
