Creation 1984
The opening arrives as a bright citrus-green salvo—bergamot and galbanum cut through fuzzy peach and sharp cassis, the neroli lending a slightly bitter, petalled edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Citrus65
- Mossy60
- Tuberose55
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives as a bright citrus-green salvo—bergamot and galbanum cut through fuzzy peach and sharp cassis, the neroli lending a slightly bitter, petalled edge. It's loud but not shrill, a deliberate fanfare typical of its era. Within minutes, the white florals swell: gardenia and tuberose dominate, creamy and indolic, softened by powdery orris and pillowed with jasmine and ylang-ylang. The effect is opulent without being cloying, a bouquet staged under warm lights.
As it dries down, oakmoss and patchouli anchor the composition with classic chypre structure, while sandalwood and vanilla round the edges into something warmer and less austere. The base feels substantial, almost resinous, with vetiver adding a dry, rooty counterpoint to the sweeter amber and musk.
Creation walks the line between floral abundance and chypre discipline—a scent for someone who wants presence without aggression, vintage construction without feeling costumed.
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.
