Cristal Royal
Pear and black currant give the opening a juicy, slightly tart quality that bergamot keeps from reading too sweet.
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
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readPear and black currant give the opening a juicy, slightly tart quality that bergamot keeps from reading too sweet. The fruit sits prominently here — ripe but not candy-like.
Jasmine, lily of the valley, and violet move in as the top notes fade. The violet gives the heart a slightly powdery, cool character that complements the earlier fruitiness, while the white florals stay soft rather than loud.
Sandalwood and musk form a clean, barely-there base that keeps the fragrance light throughout its life. The overall impression is fresh, fruity-floral with a gentle powdery finish — straightforward in structure and suited to warm-weather casual or daily wear.
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.
