Borea
Borea opens fruity and creamy — pear, coconut, almond, and plum stacked together, the almond giving it a marzipan edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tuberose65
- Vanilla60
- Woody55
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Coconut
- Almond
- Plum
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readBorea opens fruity and creamy — pear, coconut, almond, and plum stacked together, the almond giving it a marzipan edge. The fruit doesn't read fresh so much as candied, and it sets up a dense feminine arc rather than a watery one.
The heart is a full white-floral bouquet of tuberose, jasmine, freesia, and rose, and the base brings sandalwood, oakmoss, vanilla, and musk to ground it. There's a faint chypre-modern undercurrent from the oakmoss that keeps Borea from going pure gourmand. Named for Boreas, the north wind, but the wear is warm and indulgent — closer to a velvet coat than a gust.
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.
