Belle
Petitgrain crackles first, a green-citrus leaf that drags bergamot’s bright oil into a slightly bitter, stem-like channel rather than classic cologne sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Aromatic50
- Green50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Musk
- Petitgrain
- Freesia
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain crackles first, a green-citrus leaf that drags bergamot’s bright oil into a slightly bitter, stem-like channel rather than classic cologne sparkle. Freesia arrives within minutes, its airy, soap-rinsed petals softening the leaf edge and lifting the accord toward clean laundry musk. The heart stays transparent; no other florals crowd the freesia, so its watercolour silhouette remains visible against skin. Musk in the base is white, freshly laundered rather than animal, locking the composition into a cotton-just-dried continuum that hugs close for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for office days when you want to smell shower-clean rather than perfumed. Overall character is minimalist, bright, and quietly fresh throughout.
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.
