Illuminare Intensa
Plum and pink pepper open with a dark-fruity sharpness, the bergamot keeping things bright enough to prevent heaviness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris70
- Rose60
- Amber60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPlum and pink pepper open with a dark-fruity sharpness, the bergamot keeping things bright enough to prevent heaviness. The pepper here is more flicker than blaze.
Iris and rose take over in the middle, lifting the composition into a soft floral territory that leans powdery rather than dewy. The iris adds a cool, almost chalky quality that tempers the plum's sweetness without erasing it.
Sandalwood, amber, and vanilla build a warm, smooth base that carries the florals into a comfortable skin-close finish. Musk keeps the overall effect clean. This reads as a rounded, wearable floriental — accessible rather than adventurous.
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.
