Gardenia
The opening is brief — a thin slice of bergamot before the perfume tips into its central proposition: a thick, creamy white floral built on jasmine, orange blossom, mimosa, and tuberose-adjacent magnolia tones, with violet and rose adding cooler accents.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Mimosa
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is brief — a thin slice of bergamot before the perfume tips into its central proposition: a thick, creamy white floral built on jasmine, orange blossom, mimosa, and tuberose-adjacent magnolia tones, with violet and rose adding cooler accents.
Heliotrope contributes a soft almond-powder hum, and peach softens the florals with a hint of skin-warm fruit. The base is restrained: sandalwood, cedar, styrax, and musk hold the bouquet still rather than warming it further.
It wears velvety and feminine without being sweet — closer to a polished bouquet at room temperature than to a tropical garden. Suited to long evenings, formal wear, and cooler weather where the florals don't get loud.
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.
