Fresia
Santa Maria Novella's Fresia is a soliflore in the strict sense — a composition built to render a single flower rather than to construct a personality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Lactonic50
- Violet50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Violet
- Rose
- Iris
- Musk
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readSanta Maria Novella's Fresia is a soliflore in the strict sense — a composition built to render a single flower rather than to construct a personality. The Florentine house, working from a tradition that precedes modern perfumery entirely, treats freesia here as both subject and structure: the fresh, slightly lemony-green florality of freesia sits at the top with characteristic delicacy; violet and rose in the heart provide supporting florals that amplify without competing; iris and musk close in quiet, powdery near-silence. The simplicity is the point. An eau de cologne in sensibility if not in concentration — light, clean, resolved.
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.




