L'Élue
Orange blossom opens clean and soapy, immediately swarmed by a fatty white-floral block where tuberose dominates, gardenia thickens texture, and ylang-ylang adds banana-like sweetness.
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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.
- White Floral90
- Yellow Floral70
- Sweet50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens clean and soapy, immediately swarmed by a fatty white-floral block where tuberose dominates, gardenia thickens texture, and ylang-ylang adds banana-like sweetness. Jasmine and rose keep the heart lifted while plum and peach lend a candied, almost compoté undertone that prevents full indolic decay. The base lands on a plush sandalwood-vanilla axis dusted with heliotrope’s marzipan sheen; amber warms, musk blurs edges, so the late hours feel like powdered white petals pressed into pale wood. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, then cuddles close, ideal for temperate spring evenings or indoor date settings where indoles read as skin-like rather than theatrical.
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.



