Prada Tendre
The opening is a sharp citrus chord—neroli, lemon, bergamot—that feels more brisk than sweet, like sunlight on cool marble.
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.
- Bergamot65
- Lemon60
- Sandalwood55
- Cedar50
- Labdanum25
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a sharp citrus chord—neroli, lemon, bergamot—that feels more brisk than sweet, like sunlight on cool marble. It's clean in the way that Italian design is clean: edited, intentional, slightly austere. There's no fruit salad here, just the bright oils of peel and blossom rendered with precision.
As it settles, the woods arrive without fanfare. Sandalwood and Virginia cedar provide a pale, almost blonde backdrop, while benzoin adds just enough warmth to keep things from turning sterile. The effect is surprisingly transparent for something built on resinous materials—it hovers close to the skin rather than projecting.
This is Prada at its most minimalist: a daylight fragrance for someone who wants presence without announcement. It suits offices, linen shirts, early mornings. Not tender in the romantic sense, but in the way of something carefully refined.
