Aquawoman
Aquawoman opens with a crisp bergamot clarity that immediately softens into rose—not the dense, powdery rose of classic perfumery, but something lighter and more translucent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rose70
- Citrus65
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Lily
- Rose
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAquawoman opens with a crisp bergamot clarity that immediately softens into rose—not the dense, powdery rose of classic perfumery, but something lighter and more translucent. The citrus acts less as contrast and more as a lens, refracting the floral through clean, watery facets. Within minutes, lily enters, adding a pale green coolness that keeps the rose from becoming too sweet or nostalgic.
The drydown settles into amber and musk, but neither element announces itself loudly. Instead, they provide a gentle warmth beneath the florals, like sunlight filtered through water. The overall effect is both fresh and soft—a rose composition made deliberately sheer, aimed at someone who wants floral femininity without heaviness or vintage associations.
This fits the early 2000s tendency toward transparent, aquatic treatments of traditional materials. Aquawoman takes a familiar rose-lily pairing and renders it in pastels rather than oils, creating something more approachable than arresting.
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.
