Samba Nova
Orange blossom lands first, a waxy, honeyed spotlight that throws every subsequent white petal into high relief.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Tuberose90
- White Floral90
- Yellow Floral80
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom lands first, a waxy, honeyed spotlight that throws every subsequent white petal into high relief. Tuberose muscles in almost immediately, its coconut-fat richness dragging jasmine and ylang-ylang into a creamy, indolic cluster; iris slips a cool, violet-tinged powder between the blooms, preventing the heart from cloying. After ninety minutes the sandalwood cedar chassis emerges, dry and pale, letting civet’s dirty fur smudge the florals while amber reheats the leftover ylangg-ylang vanillin so the scent exhales skin-warmth rather than room-filling sillage. Projection stays within conversational distance for five hours, then collapses to a softly musked skin tint perfect for humid spring nights or a summer dinner date when you want the flowers to arrive just before you do.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
