Walking On Via Fiori Oscuri
A bouquet built around magnolia, with bergamot and mandarin lifting the opening into something bright and almost waxy-floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Heliotrope
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readA bouquet built around magnolia, with bergamot and mandarin lifting the opening into something bright and almost waxy-floral. Lily of the valley and mimosa add greenness and yellow-pollen sweetness, while heliotrope tilts the heart toward almond-vanilla without going gourmand.
Rose threads through the middle — quiet, more pink-petal than red — and the base settles on tonka bean and vetiver. Tonka gives a hay-and-coumarin warmth; vetiver supplies a faint smoky-rooty undercurrent that keeps the white florals from drifting into soap territory.
Elegant rather than dramatic. A daytime floral with enough texture to wear past sundown, particularly in shoulder-season weather.
Scent twins
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