Esquel
Esquel opens wide — lavender and bergamot over iris, with pink pepper and lemon adding lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender70
- Iris60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Iris
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readEsquel opens wide — lavender and bergamot over iris, with pink pepper and lemon adding lift. The lavender reads herbal-aromatic rather than soapy, and the iris in the top is unusual: cool, slightly powdery, and present from the first minute.
A dense floral heart follows, with petitgrain, cinnamon, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, patchouli, iris, and rose all in conversation. The composition keeps shifting through the second hour — warmer with the cinnamon, then greener with the petitgrain, then white-floral, then resinous.
The base is classical: tonka, vetiver, vanilla, opoponax, patchouli, and musk, smoothed into a soft, almost balmy finish. A long, layered scent for a long evening.
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.
