Leylak
Leylak — Turkish for lilac — opens with pineapple, melon, and bergamot: a tropical-fruity brightness that's more 1984 than its name implies.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Rose45
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Melon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Honey
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLeylak — Turkish for lilac — opens with pineapple, melon, and bergamot: a tropical-fruity brightness that's more 1984 than its name implies. Jasmine, lily of the valley, honey, and May rose build a lush heart that tilts toward warmth, the honey lending a natural sweetness that complements the florals without overwhelming them.
The base is where Pereja's ambition shows: sandalwood, vetiver, iris, amber, vanilla, and a basket of fruits — raspberry, peach, blackberry — together building a rich, layered drydown that reads differently on every wear. The composition may be overstuffed by modern standards, but it has the density and warmth of something made to last, to project, to be remembered in a room.
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.
