Diaghilev
Diaghilev opens with a curious tension—the brightness of citrus undercut by tarragon's anise-green shadow and a faint animal warmth from cumin.
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.
- Tuberose80
- Woody75
- Leather75
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Cumin
- Lime
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readDiaghilev opens with a curious tension—the brightness of citrus undercut by tarragon's anise-green shadow and a faint animal warmth from cumin. Within minutes, the composition unfolds into a sprawling white floral heart dominated by tuberose and jasmine, their creaminess amplified by peach and heliotrope's almond-powder softness. The effect is narcotic but never cloying, held in check by violet's coolness and the structure of multiple wood notes beneath.
The dry down reveals the perfume's true character: a leathered, resinous base built on sandalwood, labdanum, and civet that gives the florals a vintage glamour. There's a deliberate heaviness here, a late-night opulence that recalls the Ballets Russes costumes and bohemian excess of its namesake impresario. This suits those drawn to complex, unapologetically bold scents that develop over hours rather than moments.
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.
