Truly Pink
Freesia opens lightly green and dewy, watery-floral rather than sweet, with a faint peppery-floral bite at the edges.
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.
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia opens lightly green and dewy, watery-floral rather than sweet, with a faint peppery-floral bite at the edges. The opening reads transparent and almost watercolour.
Lily of the valley and peony deepen the heart slightly without losing the airy quality, both notes keeping things in pink-and-white floral territory — peony adding watery petal lushness, lily of the valley a clean dew-on-stem feel. There's no fruity or green counterweight beyond what the freesia provided.
Iris and violet finish in a quiet powdery-cosmetic register, iris cool and slightly carroty, violet candied-soft. The overall character is a transparent fresh floral with a powdery iris-violet floor — close-wearing, near-linear, suits spring daytime and gentle casual contexts. Built for unobtrusive softness rather than presence.
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.