Lilacs & Heliotrope
Bergamot flashes briefly, a thin citric whistle that parts quickly to let heliotrope’s marzipan-tinged powder bloom.
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
- Almond50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
- Oakmoss
- Civet
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes briefly, a thin citric whistle that parts quickly to let heliotrope’s marzipan-tinged powder bloom. The almond facet of heliotrope fattens the heart, turning the composition pastel and sweet while oakmoss begins to creep underneath with a cool, loamy grip. Vanilla and benzoin warm the base, stretching the almond accord into a soft, honeyed haze, yet civet keeps the fur raised, adding a low growl that stops the confection from turning cloying. Musk stretches the final skin trail, dusty rather than clean, so the scent stays closer than most florals and keeps a faint animalic echo for hours. Projection is polite, perfect for office days when spring still carries a chill, and the dry-down remains a pale almond-iris glow long after the lilac illusion has gone.
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.
