Japanese Rituals
Peony, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a sweet, fresh brightness — the peony contributing a soft, slightly powdery floral note while the citrus adds fizz and lightness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose70
- Patchouli40
- Ozonic20
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readPeony, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a sweet, fresh brightness — the peony contributing a soft, slightly powdery floral note while the citrus adds fizz and lightness. Clean and cheerful from the first spray.
A layered floral heart follows: jasmine, lily of the valley, freesia, osmanthus, and rose together create a dense white floral bouquet. Osmanthus adds a subtle peach-apricot note; freesia provides airy freshness; jasmine and rose supply classic depth. The heart is lush without being heavy — each note contributes rather than competing.
Cedar, patchouli, and musk provide a light woody base with a faint earthiness that grounds the florals without defining the dry-down. A well-made accessible floral that punches above its price point — best worn in spring and early summer when the warmth amplifies the heart.
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.