Cotton Musk
Gardenia and lily of the valley open with a clean, bright white-floral character — cool and slightly green, not overtly sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Lily of the Valley
- Jasmine
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and lily of the valley open with a clean, bright white-floral character — cool and slightly green, not overtly sweet. Jasmine and rose fill in the heart, adding depth and a soft warmth to the lighter top notes.
Tonka bean and vanilla work underneath to give the florals a gentle, almost lactonic softness. White musk and vetiver keep the base from getting too sweet, pulling the dry-down toward a clean skin-like quality rather than a heavy gourmand finish.
The overall feel is a well-rounded soft white floral — familiar and wearable, with enough musky warmth to carry it beyond a simple clean-soap read. It stays close to the skin.
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.
