Cuirlilas
Heliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder haze that immediately signals creamy sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Powdery80
- Sweet70
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Orris
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder haze that immediately signals creamy sweetness. Orris enters next, amplifying the powder while adding a cool, carrot-earth facet that keeps the composition from turning sugary; lily of the valley threads a clean green edge through the heart, lifting the density. As the base settles, tonka reinforces the heliotrope’s marzipan tone, yet double sandalwood—regular and Mysore—lays down a buttery wood floor that absorbs excess sweetness. Leather, castoreum and ambergris introduce a quietly salty, slightly smoky animalic pulse that prevents the bouquet from collapsing into pastry, while honey and opoponax supply a muted resin glow rather than overt stickiness. The result wears like suede gloves dusted with iris talc, projecting an arm’s length aura for eight hours and favoring cool evenings when its skin-close fur accord feels most natural.
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.
