Osmanthus
The Different Company's Osmanthus opens with orange and bergamot — a clean, solar citrus that functions as a blank canvas rather than a statement.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Musky60
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
- Rose
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readThe Different Company's Osmanthus opens with orange and bergamot — a clean, solar citrus that functions as a blank canvas rather than a statement. The opening is brief and purposeful, making room for the heart as quickly as possible.
Osmanthus dominates the heart, as it should: the note is famously multifaceted, reading simultaneously as apricot, leather, and tea leaf depending on the wearer. Jasmine and rose support it without competing, providing a floral backdrop that lifts the osmanthus's complexity without distorting it.
Castoreum in the base is the unexpected depth charge — faintly animalic, warm, and polarizing. Combined with pink pepper's spice and musk's skin-like closeness, it gives the osmanthus a body that prevents the composition from reading as merely pleasant. A precision floral for those who know what osmanthus is capable of.
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.




