No. 9 Sélection Excellence
Pear, Bulgarian rose, orange blossom, and anise open with a complex fruity-floral mix that has an herbal note from the anise, keeping the sweetness in check.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Bulgarian Rose
- Orange Blossom
- Anise
- Ginger
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readPear, Bulgarian rose, orange blossom, and anise open with a complex fruity-floral mix that has an herbal note from the anise, keeping the sweetness in check. Ginger and ylang-ylang add warm spice and a creamy yellow-floral depth in the heart, while plum reinforces the dark-fruit character established at the top. Amber, vanilla, and musk smooth the drydown into a warm, rounded base.
The anise and ginger give this more personality than a standard fruity floral — there is a herbal-spiced tension that works against the sweeter elements. The ylang-ylang adds an exotic, slightly heady dimension. The overall composition is warm and feminine, best suited to cooler months and evening occasions.
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.
