The Spirit of Moonflower Perfume Oil
Gardenia dominates the opening with creamy white-petal richness, while melon adds a watery green-sweet lift that keeps the flower from turning cloying.
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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Melon
- Lily of the Valley
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia dominates the opening with creamy white-petal richness, while melon adds a watery green-sweet lift that keeps the flower from turning cloying. Lily of the valley enters next, sharpening the bouquet with cool, rain-kissed green edges that thin the gardenia’s cream into a translucent veil. Jasmine and jasmine-rose in the base do not deepen the scent; instead they extend the white-floral glow, letting the petals hover just above skin for hours. The oil stays close, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length, yet the white flowers remain identifiable even in late dry-down. Warm humid weather intensifies the melon wateriness, making it an easy reach for steamy commutes or weekend errands when loud projection feels rude.
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.
