Madame
The opening bursts with citrus and neroli—a bright, slightly bitter freshness that recalls cologne rather than heavy vintage femininity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Mossy75
- Tuberose70
- Floral65
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with citrus and neroli—a bright, slightly bitter freshness that recalls cologne rather than heavy vintage femininity. Within minutes, the white flowers arrive: tuberose and jasmine tempered by violet and iris, creating a cooler, more powdered effect than you might expect from such an opulent list. The florals feel formal rather than lush, like a silk blouse instead of bare skin.
As it settles, oakmoss and sandalwood ground everything in classic chypre territory, though the tonka and musk soften the structure considerably. The result walks a line between aldehydic sophistication and earthy warmth. It smells composed, deliberate, never loud—the kind of fragrance that suggests gloves and good posture.
Best suited to those who appreciate midcentury elegance without nostalgia goggles. This is reference-point perfumery: polished, unambiguous, meant to be noticed but never discussed.
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.




