Meu Jardim Secreto e Mais Verde
The opening is all crisp verdancy—melon and pear rendered not sweet but watery and tart, like cutting into fruit under dappled shade.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Green70
- Rose50
- Sandalwood40
- Cedar40
- Vanilla30
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is all crisp verdancy—melon and pear rendered not sweet but watery and tart, like cutting into fruit under dappled shade. It suggests the cool dampness of a garden corner where walls meet foliage, somewhere private and slightly overgrown.
As it settles, lily of the valley arrives with its characteristic green-white sharpness, softened by violet's powdery hush and a pale rose that feels more dewy petal than full bloom. The florals stay transparent, never thick or heady. They retain that initial garden atmosphere: fresh air, not hothouse.
The base woods and vanilla keep things grounded without adding weight. Sandalwood and cedar provide a soft, skin-close warmth while vanilla merely rounds the edges rather than sweetening. It's a light-handed composition for someone who wants florals that feel plucked rather than arranged, garden-real rather than perfume-pretty. Straightforward, easy to wear, and genuinely green.
