Hélène
The opening is busy: juicy pear and lemon set against a sweet-green cardamom and the warm bark of cinnamon, with neroli, ylang, and a hint of pink pepper crowding the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Almond70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Cinnamon
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is busy: juicy pear and lemon set against a sweet-green cardamom and the warm bark of cinnamon, with neroli, ylang, and a hint of pink pepper crowding the edges. The effect is fruity-aromatic and slightly festive.
The heart turns floral-spicy as jasmine, magnolia, orange blossom, and rose layer over heliotrope's almond-cherry powderiness. Tonka begins warming the composition early, knitting the florals to the spice.
The drydown is heliotrope-and-tonka led: a soft almond-vanilla powder with sandalwood, benzoin, amber, iris, and patchouli forming a creamy, slightly resinous cushion. The overall character is a warm, powdery floriental with a marzipan-meets-spice glow — full but unhurried, suited to cool-weather evening and daytime wear.
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.
