Varensia
Varensia opens with a rush of citrus and berry—neroli and bergamot bright against raspberry's sweet tartness.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Raspberry
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
By the editors · 2 min readVarensia opens with a rush of citrus and berry—neroli and bergamot bright against raspberry's sweet tartness. The impression is casual, almost cheerful, without pretense. Within minutes, the florals arrive: jasmine and ylang-ylang bloom into something creamy and diffuse, softened by a hint of blackcurrant's winey depth. It's generous rather than refined, wearing its white flowers openly.
The drydown settles into a familiar nineties base of vanilla, benzoin, and patchouli, warmed by labdanum and sandalwood. The sweetness is persistent but not heavy, more comforting than seductive. Vetiver adds a touch of earthiness that keeps it from tipping fully into dessert territory.
This is accessible oriental floristry for everyday wear—unpretentious, easy to like, built for warmth rather than complexity. It belongs to an era when perfume felt abundant and unapologetic, before minimalism took hold.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
