Gem Parfum Van Cleef & Arpels
Plum, peach, and cardamom open as a faceted fruit-spice trio — the cardamom dry and aromatic, the fruits ripe but not syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy60
- Tuberose55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Peach
- Cardamom
- Orris
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readPlum, peach, and cardamom open as a faceted fruit-spice trio — the cardamom dry and aromatic, the fruits ripe but not syrupy. The opening reads sophisticated rather than juicy, with the cardamom anchoring everything.
The heart is a wide-open floral chamber. Orris, tuberose, jasmine, ylang, iris, and rose layer over each other. Iris and orris add cool powder; tuberose and jasmine add white-floral creaminess; ylang waxy warmth; rose a jammy lift. The composition feels stately and slightly old-world.
Oakmoss, civet, vetiver, amber, vanilla, and patchouli form a dense chypre-leaning base. Civet adds restrained animalic depth, oakmoss earthy darkness, amber and vanilla warmth. The drydown is polished and complex, with the florals persisting through a long, woody-mossy finish.
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.
