V. Intense
The opening is plummy and sun-warmed — pear and plum sliding into bergamot, with saffron threading a faint leather-cured warmth through the fruit before any flowers register.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Pear
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Bergamot
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is plummy and sun-warmed — pear and plum sliding into bergamot, with saffron threading a faint leather-cured warmth through the fruit before any flowers register.
Ylang-ylang and rose carry the middle, not as a clean bouquet but smudged by patchouli's earthy depth and saffron's dried-fruit tone. The effect is heady, slightly creamy, suggestive rather than crisp.
Sandalwood and musk anchor the tail with a soft, skin-warm finish. Patchouli stays present throughout, giving the whole composition a dusky, slightly bohemian cast. It feels velvet rather than silk — the kind of floral-fruity that reads as candlelit interior rather than open-air spring.
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.
