Nuewa
Opens with a sharp citrus blast — lemon and bergamot — that yields almost immediately to a dense floral core of jasmine, osmanthus, and rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Patchouli65
- Rose60
- Amber50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Osmanthus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a sharp citrus blast — lemon and bergamot — that yields almost immediately to a dense floral core of jasmine, osmanthus, and rose. The heart is rich but not sweet: osmanthus brings a slight apricot-skin quality, and the roses sit under it rather than above. Then the base arrives and reveals the fragrance's true character. Cumin, oakmoss, and patchouli form a chypre structure of genuine weight — earthy, animalic, and deliberate. Labdanum and vetiver deepen it further; birch adds a dry, slightly medicinal note. This is a classical chypre in the fullest sense: polarizing, demanding patience, built to be understood slowly over hours on skin.
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.