Fleur de Chine
Fleur de Chine opens with a soft wash of bergamot and stone fruit—peach and plum rendered sheer rather than sweet, more like the pale flesh near the pit than the sugared skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Plum
- Peach
- Peony
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readFleur de Chine opens with a soft wash of bergamot and stone fruit—peach and plum rendered sheer rather than sweet, more like the pale flesh near the pit than the sugared skin. The effect is politely fruity, restrained in a way that feels deliberate, almost austere. Magnolia appears quickly but stays translucent, never indolic or heavy.
As it settles, vetiver and amber provide a warm, slightly powdered base that anchors the florals without turning soapy. The peony adds a crisp, peppery edge that keeps the composition from drifting into pure softness. There's a balance here between the lush and the spare, as if someone laid silk over unfinished wood.
This is Tom Ford in a quieter register—cosmopolitan but not loud, feminine without being overtly seductive. It wears close to the skin and suits someone who prefers suggestion to statement.
Scent twins
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