Magnolia Folie
Magnolia opens creamy and lactonic, its waxy petals already folding around the sharper citrus of bergamot and mandarin that flash for seconds then vanish.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Lactonic70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens creamy and lactonic, its waxy petals already folding around the sharper citrus of bergamot and mandarin that flash for seconds then vanish. Heart layers keep the white-flower theme consistent: jasmine adds indolic radiance while orange blossom contributes a honeyed green edge, so the bouquet reads luminous rather than sweet. Cedar in the base stays clean and pencil-sharp, letting patchouli supply the only real earthy weight, a quiet cocoa-like darkness that stops the flowers from floating. During the first two hours the scent hovers close to skin, a silky citrus-magnolia skin veil that gradually dries to soft blond wood. Projection remains polite—office-friendly—yet the lactonic magnolia lingers on fabric through a warm afternoon, making it an easy reach for spring brunches or summer travel days when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
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.




