C-Thru Crystalline
Gardenia and bergamot open with a creamy-citrus brightness that feels like sliced white petals drizzled with lemon oil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and bergamot open with a creamy-citrus brightness that feels like sliced white petals drizzled with lemon oil. The heart stacks magnolia's cool waxen bloom against lily of the valley's crisp green flicker, while Virginia cedar supplies a dry pencil-shave backbone that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Over the first hour the white flowers absorb the cedar, producing a clean musky-amber glow that hovers close to skin. Dry-down stays polite: amber warms the remaining woods into a soft skin-scent veil, musk adding a freshly-laundered cotton finish rather than animal growl. Projection remains office-friendly, radiating maybe a forearm's length for four-five hours before settling into a clean cotton-skin aura. Works best in spring office air-conditioning or mild summer evenings when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
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.
