Artemisia
Artemisia opens with a green, slightly bitter clarity that quickly softens into a luminous floral heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Amber65
- Vanilla60
- Caramel30
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Green Apple
- Green Notes
- Nectarine
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readArtemisia opens with a green, slightly bitter clarity that quickly softens into a luminous floral heart. The jasmine feels restrained rather than indolic, cushioned by lily of the valley's clean sweetness and a whisper of violet that lends an old-fashioned, powdery refinement. Vanilla appears early, threading through the florals without turning gourmand, more like the vanilla you'd find in a vintage face powder than a dessert.
The base settles into a mossy sandalwood with amber warmth and soft musk, conjuring the atmosphere of a well-kept Edwardian dressing room. It's recognizably Penhaligon's in its genteel Britishness—polite, pretty, slightly prim. Artemisia suits someone drawn to floral fragrances with traditional bones, who wants presence without fanfare. It feels like afternoon light through lace curtains, composed and quietly self-assured.
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.




