Victoria's Secret Forbidden
Forbidden plays its hand quickly: a juicy pear top, watery and a touch sugared, that slips into a single white-floral pulse of jasmine almost as soon as it lands.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 1 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.
- Amber50
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Jasmine
- Woody Notes
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readForbidden plays its hand quickly: a juicy pear top, watery and a touch sugared, that slips into a single white-floral pulse of jasmine almost as soon as it lands. There's no preamble — the fruit is over in minutes.
What remains is a soft amber-woody dry-down, vague in outline and meant to read as warm rather than complex. It's a department-store fruity-floral built for pulse-points and a quick first impression — flirtatious, not interrogative. Wear it close, and it stays close; spray it for a room, and the woody base does most of the talking by the second hour.
Scent twins
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