Lost Cause
Apple and bergamot lead — crisp, lightly sweet, with a fresh citrus edge that feels clean rather than sharp.
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.
- Fresh60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readApple and bergamot lead — crisp, lightly sweet, with a fresh citrus edge that feels clean rather than sharp. The opening is breezy and approachable, leaning fruity without becoming syrupy.
Jasmine, freesia, and lily of the valley form the heart — a soft white floral cluster that keeps the fruitiness honest. Freesia adds a faintly green transparency, preventing the jasmine from going heady. The florals feel uncluttered and natural.
Ambergris anchors the base with a warm, subtle marine-mineral quality that blends seamlessly into the white florals above. Vanilla adds a gentle sweetness without going gourmand. The result is a light, luminous scent that wears close and feels effortless.
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.
