First Van Cleef & Arpels
The opening pours out heavy and sweet, blackcurrant and raspberry syrup cushioned by soft peach, all of it immediately submerged in a thick wave of white florals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tuberose90
- Tonka75
- Vanilla70
- Jasmine65
- Amber65
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening pours out heavy and sweet, blackcurrant and raspberry syrup cushioned by soft peach, all of it immediately submerged in a thick wave of white florals. This is tuberose and ylang-ylang at their most operatic—creamy, narcotic, borderline overwhelming. The fruits never quite disappear, but they blur into the floral mass, sweetening rather than cutting through.
As it settles, the oakmoss and civet add a darker, animalic warmth that keeps the composition from floating away into pure dessert. The base is plushy and ambered, tonka and vanilla smoothing everything into a golden haze. There's a suggestion of sandalwood beneath, though it's more textural than distinct.
This is vintage femininity rendered in bold strokes: unapologetically rich, full-bodied, designed to fill a room. It belongs to an era when perfume was meant to announce rather than whisper, and it still does exactly that.
