Hermetic
Lemon opens bright and sharp, slicing through the creamy weight that follows.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Caramel80
- Yellow Floral70
- Sweet60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens bright and sharp, slicing through the creamy weight that follows. Ylang-ylang and peach fuse into a velvety yellow-floral pulp, while rose keeps the heart lifted and slightly cool against the lactonic sweetness. Caramel and tonka bean melt together in the base, turning the composition into a toasted almond glaze that still carries citrus edges from the lingering lemon. Frankincense smolders quietly underneath, adding a resinous snap that prevents the gourmand layer from becoming flat sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length for the first three hours, then collapses to skin-warmed caramel with a faint floral ghost. Cool fall evenings and dressed-up casual settings let the sweet smoke breathe without cloying.
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.
