Malatesta
Lily and iris open cool and waxen, their powdery petals dusted with sharp mandarin zest that keeps the white flowers from turning creamy.
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.
- Lavender60
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Orange
- Iris
- Musk
- Leather
- Lavender
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readLily and iris open cool and waxen, their powdery petals dusted with sharp mandarin zest that keeps the white flowers from turning creamy. A swift heart folds in leather and lavender: the hide is matte, suede-like, while lavender’s clean camphor edge slices through the floral cream, creating a cool-grey accord that feels tailored rather than lush. Jasmine stays backgrounded, yet its indolic whiff bridges the flowers to the forthcoming oud. Once the vanilla arrives, it doesn’t sweeten; instead, it acts like a dimmer switch, softening leather’s grain and allowing patchouli’s bitter-chocolate earth to peek through. Musk re-enters late, stretching the remaining notes into a calm, skin-close veil that smells of parchment, violets, and quietly cured hide. Projection stays moderate, perfect for cool spring offices or an art-gallery evening.
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.