First Love
First Love is built around osmanthus, which the perfumer treats as a fruit-floral hybrid: apricot-soft, slightly leathery underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Yellow Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Osmanthus
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peony
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFirst Love is built around osmanthus, which the perfumer treats as a fruit-floral hybrid: apricot-soft, slightly leathery underneath. Ylang and peony in the heart broaden it without changing direction.
Amber and vanilla in the base round the whole thing into something warm and skin-close. There's almost no spice and no green — the composition reads as a single soft-floral idea explored at low volume. It lasts through a daytime wear and trails about an arm's-length away. Best understood as an entry-level VC&A floral, designed to be agreeable rather than memorable.
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.
