À La Nuit
**A La Nuit** arrives as pure white jasmine, almost alarmingly concentrated, the way night-blooming flowers can overwhelm a garden after dark.
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.
- Floral100
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Benzoin
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min read**A La Nuit** arrives as pure white jasmine, almost alarmingly concentrated, the way night-blooming flowers can overwhelm a garden after dark. This is not the polite jasmine of tea blends or hand cream—it's thick, honeyed, nearly animalic in its opening moments. The petals feel dewy and fleshy, touched with indole's soft decay, the scent hovering somewhere between bridal bouquet and funeral wreath.
As it settles, the intensity softens but never disappears. The jasmine remains opulent and slightly narcotic, its sweetness tempered by a subtle green bitterness, like stems crushed underfoot. There's benzoin adding warmth in the base, rounding the sharp edges without taming them completely.
This is jasmine for those who want to smell unmistakably of jasmine—unapologetic, room-filling, best suited to evenings when subtlety isn't the goal. It demands commitment and wears like a statement rather than an accent.
Scent twins
In this family
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