Mousseline
Mousseline opens with violet leaf, black pepper, orange blossom, and bergamot — a layered accord that moves between cool-green, spiced, and floral simultaneously.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy80
- Green60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readMousseline opens with violet leaf, black pepper, orange blossom, and bergamot — a layered accord that moves between cool-green, spiced, and floral simultaneously. Violet leaf provides a watery, cut-stem freshness; pepper adds dry heat; orange blossom brings white floral softness; bergamot delivers citrus lift.
The base is classically composed: sandalwood, oakmoss, ambergris, vetiver, labdanum, patchouli, and musk. This is the architecture of a mid-century floral-chypre: earthy, resinous, and animalic in the way that formal fragrances of that era were.
Mousseline is a complex, layered study in chypre structure — green and floral up top, dark and mossy below. It rewards wearing on cooler days when the full base has time to emerge.
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.
