Nue au Soleil
Petitgrain crackles open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into a creamy white-floral heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Magnolia
- Orange Blossom
- Freesia
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain crackles open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into a creamy white-floral heart. Magnolia dominates, its waxy petals cushioned by orange blossom's honeyed radiance and freesia's watery lift, creating a luminous bouquet that feels shower-clean rather than indolic. The white musk base arrives early, sheathing the florals in a skin-hick cotton veil while amberwood adds a blond-wood warmth and patchouli supplies only the softest earth-brown anchor, never turning dark or leafy. Wear is linear: the opening citrus snap subsides within minutes, leaving a freshly-laundered white musk glow that hovers just above skin for hours. Projection stays polite, a one-foot clean-skin aura perfect for summer weddings or office days when you want to smell showered rather than perfumed. Longevity is moderate, six-to-eight hours before the musky laundry note becomes a whisper.
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.
