Margaux
Blood orange and bergamot open with a juicy, slightly tart citrus that keeps the gardenia in the top note from feeling heavy or tropical.
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.
- Sweet60
- Floral60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Blood Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange and bergamot open with a juicy, slightly tart citrus that keeps the gardenia in the top note from feeling heavy or tropical. The opening is bright and accessible, with a light fruitiness that fades cleanly.
Jasmine and violet make up a soft floral heart — jasmine brings some indolic depth while violet keeps things powdery and slightly cool. Heliotrope nudges the composition toward an almond-like sweetness that bridges the florals and the base.
Benzoin, vanilla, and musk settle into a warm, slightly powdery drydown. The base is gentle rather than rich — vanilla provides sweetness without turning gourmand, and the musk stays close to skin. The overall character is a sweet, soft floral with a comfortable, approachable finish.
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.
