Ocean of Flowers
Gardenia opens Ocean of Flowers with a creamy, almost coconut-like white floral that immediately dominates the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Tropical70
- Lactonic60
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Rose
- Tuberose
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens Ocean of Flowers with a creamy, almost coconut-like white floral that immediately dominates the skin. The heart amplifies this lushness through tuberose, whose camphorous edge cuts the gardenia's sweetness while adding a fleshy, narcotic depth that feels humid and tropical. Rose weaves quietly between the white petals, providing a soft pink hue that prevents the bouquet from collapsing into pure indolic heaviness. As the flowers settle, sandalwood's buttery wood emerges, its milky facets extending the gardenia's creaminess while ambergris adds a salty, skin-like musk that keeps the composition airy rather than cloying. Patchouli appears last, offering just enough earthy backbone to ground the white florals without introducing darkness.
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.
