L'Eau
Orange, lemon, and bergamot open the composition as a sustained citrus chord — three classic eau materials layered for brightness, the lemon giving zip, the bergamot a slightly bitter polish, the orange a juicier round.
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.
- Citrus70
- Fresh50
- Iris50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readOrange, lemon, and bergamot open the composition as a sustained citrus chord — three classic eau materials layered for brightness, the lemon giving zip, the bergamot a slightly bitter polish, the orange a juicier round.
Iris alone forms the heart, which gives the citrus a powdery, slightly cool floral hand-off. The transition is unusual: rather than a busy floral middle, the iris extends the freshness into something more contemplative and refined.
Sandalwood, ambergris, and musk close the composition with a soft, creamy, slightly salty warmth. Ambergris adds quiet skin-like depth without heaviness. Overall: a refined cologne-iris with elegant simplicity, modest projection, moderate longevity, and a versatile, season-spanning character.
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.
