Stella
Blood orange opens juicy and slightly tart, with the deeper berry-like sweetness that distinguishes it from regular orange.
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
- White Floral50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Lily
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens juicy and slightly tart, with the deeper berry-like sweetness that distinguishes it from regular orange. The citrus is bright but not piercing, setting up the floral heart with a sun-warmed glow.
Lily and freesia emerge together, the lily clean and waxy rather than funereal, the freesia adding a watery, slightly green floral lift. The pairing keeps the heart luminous and pastel rather than narcotic or heavy.
Sandalwood and musk close things out softly, the sandalwood lending a creamy woody warmth and the musk binding everything close to the skin. The overall character is breezy, feminine in a clean modern mode, and uncomplicated, well-suited to spring and summer daytime wear, casual occasions, and anyone preferring florals washed in citrus.
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