Byzance
Byzance opens with the culinary precision of a professional kitchen — lemon and basil together, brightened by cardamom's warm spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Tuberose70
- Floral65
- Amber60
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Basil
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Cardamom
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readByzance opens with the culinary precision of a professional kitchen — lemon and basil together, brightened by cardamom's warm spice. It's a surprising overture for what follows: one of the richest white floral hearts of its decade. Tuberose and jasmine take the lead alongside ylang-ylang and anise — the anise being the real surprise, adding a slightly medicinal sweetness that was fashionable in French oriental perfumery of the 1980s.
The base is warm amber orientalism executed with classical confidence: sandalwood, cedar, amber, vanilla, and heliotrope layered into something dense and powdery. Heliotrope especially is characteristic of the era — almond-powder rather than floral, softening the tuberose without muffling it.
A fragrance of deliberate grandeur, unapologetic about what it is.
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.
