Exception
Exception opens with neroli and orange zest—bright, slightly waxy citrus that quickly gives way to a spiced floral core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readException opens with neroli and orange zest—bright, slightly waxy citrus that quickly gives way to a spiced floral core. Ginger and pink pepper animate jasmine and rose without overwhelming them, giving the heart a clean but warm energy that avoids heaviness.
Sandalwood and myrrh anchor the dry-down in creamy resin, while patchouli adds a mild earthiness and vanilla softens the finish into something approachable. The result is a citrus floral that earns its oriental base rather than borrowing it—each stage reads distinct before blending. A competent, balanced construction with good seasonal range.
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.
