Blonde
A white floral that arrives with immediate, almost aggressive intensity.
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.
- Tuberose75
- Musky55
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readA white floral that arrives with immediate, almost aggressive intensity. The gardenia and neroli collide in the opening, sweet and slightly soapy, with bergamot providing just enough citric edge to keep it from turning cloying. Within minutes, tuberose takes command, thick and creamy, supported by ylang-ylang's banana-tinged richness. The violet in the top notes adds an odd powdery facet that weaves through the whole composition, softening what could otherwise be an unapologetically carnal flower bomb.
The drydown pulls in an animalic direction, with civet lending a warm, skin-like muskiness that contrasts sharply with the pristine white petals above. Benzoin adds sweetness and vanilla-adjacent depth. It's a perfume that wears brazenly, designed for someone who doesn't mind being noticed.
Blonde feels distinctly mid-nineties: bold, synthetic in places, unafraid of volume. It's not subtle, but it commits fully to its white floral identity with a slightly dirty edge.
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.
