Gardenia
Gardenia opens the composition front and center, paired with lily and ylang-ylang.
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.
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Gardenia
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens the composition front and center, paired with lily and ylang-ylang. The gardenia reads creamy and slightly mushroom-tinged, the lily cool and waxy, the ylang lending a tropical-banana warmth. There is no citrus or green to mediate them.
The heart deepens the gardenia further, with Madagascar vanilla sweetening from below — softening rather than candying. The flowers maintain their indolic-creamy character throughout, with no fruity or aldehydic facets.
The drydown introduces leather, smooth and slightly animalic, alongside cashmeran's velvet-musky warmth. The leather grounds the white florals and adds a darker echo. The overall character is a rich, creamy gardenia soliflore with a leather-vanilla cushion — feminine, projecting comfortably, and pitched for cool-weather evening wear with a sultry rather than fresh register.
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.
