Forever Vera
Gardenia opens cool and waxy, its creamy petals already edged by the iris butter that will dominate the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Rum
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens cool and waxy, its creamy petals already edged by the iris butter that will dominate the heart. The flower’s fleshy sweetness is sliced by a flash of rum that adds a molten brown-sugar heat without turning boozy, letting the iris keep its cool violet powder. Tonka soon folds the composition into a soft almond-vanilla husk while sandalwood supplies a clean, blond wood frame, stretching the white floral into a skin-warmed cocoon. Musk arrives late, shearing off the last sugar crystals so the dry-down feels like laundered cashmere rather than dessert. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the day, making it an easy office-to-evening companion when temperatures drop below 70 °F.
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.
