Lily
Lily and lily-of-the-valley arrive together, their cool green-white petals creating an immediate soap-clean aura that feels freshly peeled rather than bouquet-sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLily and lily-of-the-valley arrive together, their cool green-white petals creating an immediate soap-clean aura that feels freshly peeled rather than bouquet-sweet. Vanilla enters within minutes, warming the flowers from beneath and turning the composition from stem to almond-cream fondant without adding sugar. Patchouli anchors the base, lending a quiet earthy wood that keeps the vanilla from pastry territory and extends the white florals into a soft, slightly bitter dusk. Wear is linear: the flowers stay crisp, the vanilla slowly thickens, the patchouli gains tobacco darkness, all hovering close to skin. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length at most—making it office-safe yet quietly diffusive through a six-hour workday. Cool spring mornings and rainy summer afternoons feel natural; pair with white cotton and commuter trains rather than evening plans.
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.
