F for Fascinating
F for Fascinating is built on three notes and refuses to apologise for it.
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.
- Floral80
- Patchouli70
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readF for Fascinating is built on three notes and refuses to apologise for it. Mandarin opens bright but unsweet, more peel than pulp, leaving room for jasmine to step in almost immediately. The flower is treated cleanly, without indolic heaviness — the kind of jasmine that suggests linen rather than skin.
Beneath, patchouli does the structural work. It's the modern, polished sort, all soft earth and quiet warmth, no head-shop residue. The composition stays linear from this point, settling into a close, slightly chypre dry-down.
The brevity is the point. It's a tailored woman's perfume in the late-2000s mould — restrained, signed by Olivier Polge, designed to wear under pearls and a coat.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
