Carnaval
Apple and bergamot create a crisp, slightly tart opening that quickly gains warmth from black pepper’s dry crackle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Pepper
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readApple and bergamot create a crisp, slightly tart opening that quickly gains warmth from black pepper’s dry crackle. Gardenia steps forward in the heart, its creamy white petals folding around jasmine and lily-of-the-valley to form a clean tropical bouquet; rose keeps the floral heart airy rather than syrupy-sweet. As the flowers recede, sandalwood supplies a pale blond wood that lets amber’s soft resinous glow and skin-close musk linger on skin. Projection stays polite for the first three hours, then collapses to a whisper of wood and clean musk that clings inside a shirt cuff. The composition reads like a sun-lit coastal boardwalk: bright fruit, suntan lotion florals, salt-warmed skin.
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.
