Mademoiselle N. 15
Mademoiselle N.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Iris
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMademoiselle N. 15 opens on grapefruit alone — clean, slightly bitter, with the characteristic pink-grapefruit quality that reads both citrus and faintly floral. The single top note is a direct, unpretentious entry point.
Amber, iris, Virginia cedar, and musk build the base. Iris introduces a powdery, slightly cool floral-root quality, while amber adds warmth and Virginia cedar contributes a clean, dry woodiness. The musk holds the composition at the skin level. Together the base reads as powdery-woody with a warm amber undercurrent.
This is a citrus-iris composition that resolves into a warm, powdery woody dry-down — a Parisian feminine structure in the classic tradition. The grapefruit-iris pairing is particularly effective: bright fruit opening onto cool powder. Feminine, elegant, and understated.
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.
