Lumiere (2000)
Lumière (2000) is the softer reformulation of the 1984 original — neroli, bergamot and violet open the composition in a clean, daylit register, less green and resinous than the eighties version remembered.
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.
- Tuberose60
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readLumière (2000) is the softer reformulation of the 1984 original — neroli, bergamot and violet open the composition in a clean, daylit register, less green and resinous than the eighties version remembered. The heart is a familiar white bouquet: tuberose, jasmine, ylang, lily of the valley, iris and rose, balanced rather than dominated by any one note.
The base trades the original's oakmoss-and-sandalwood chypre for tonka, vetiver, vanilla and cedar — a creamier, more contemporary drydown that projects modestly and stays through a workday. The result reads formal-friendly without the period weight of the 1984 source.
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.
