VF Choices
Pear, orange, and lemon create a juicy and bright fruity-citrus opening that is immediately appealing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Orange
- Lemon
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPear, orange, and lemon create a juicy and bright fruity-citrus opening that is immediately appealing. Vetiver adds an earthy greenness that contrasts with the sweet fruit, while jasmine and rose provide a floral heart that is rich but not heavy. Violet contributes a powdery and soft floral accent that blends into the base. Amber and vanilla create a warm and slightly sweet resinous foundation, supported by patchouli's earthy depth and musk's cleanliness. The scent evolves significantly from fruity top to floral-powdery heart to warm ambery base, offering good complexity. It projects well and lasts several hours, suited for evening or special occasions in fall or winter.
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.
