Nüwa
Bergamot and lemon open cleanly before a floral heart of jasmine, rose, and osmanthus asserts itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Rose60
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Osmanthus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon open cleanly before a floral heart of jasmine, rose, and osmanthus asserts itself. This version of Nüwa reads as more rounded and warmer than its predecessor — the resinous base elements, labdanum and patchouli, cohere into an oriental warmth rather than the confrontational chypre edge of the original. Cumin is present but subordinate, adding skin-depth without the animalic friction that defined the earlier formula. Styrax contributes a smoky sweetness, oakmoss provides structure without dominance. The result sits between oriental and chypre — layered in construction, accessible in character, and well-suited to cold evenings where its density reads as comfort rather than provocation.
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.
