Élise
Neroli and honey open in an unusual pairing — neroli's bittersweet orange blossom met by honey's warm waxy sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather70
- Honey60
- Salty60
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Honey
- Eucalyptus
- White Musk
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and honey open in an unusual pairing — neroli's bittersweet orange blossom met by honey's warm waxy sweetness. There's a marine shadow already present, salt-tinged and unexpected.
Eucalyptus enters at the heart with its sharp herbal-medicinal cool, cutting against the honey-floral warmth and lending the composition a strangely spa-adjacent character. The marine note continues to thread through, salty rather than aquatic, suggesting skin after sea.
The base brings white musk, leather, amber, vanilla, and patchouli — leather is the central anchor here, smooth and slightly animalic, with vanilla and amber wrapping it in warmth and patchouli adding earth. Overall the character is an unconventional honey-marine-leather composition with eucalyptus surprise, cool-weather-leaning, evening, distinct rather than easy.
Scent twins
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