Ouverture
Ouverture opens with an airy brightness—fig leaf's green milkiness softened by magnolia and a whisper of citrus.
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.
- Woody70
- Green70
- Smoky70
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Magnolia
- Orange
- Cinnamon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readOuverture opens with an airy brightness—fig leaf's green milkiness softened by magnolia and a whisper of citrus. The first minutes feel like stepping into a sunlit garden where florals haven't yet turned heavy. There's a cleanness here that doesn't scrub or sparkle; it simply floats.
As it settles, cinnamon arrives without its usual bakery warmth, threading through rose and ylang-ylang to create something both spiced and tender. The florals never dominate individually—they blend into a rounded, almost abstract bloom that stays close to the skin.
The drydown leans into incense and sandalwood, with amber and vanilla adding just enough sweetness to keep things from turning austere. This is composed, restrained elegance—a fragrance for someone who wants presence without announcement, complexity without drama.
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.
