Lily Of The Valley Contemporary Edition
A fresh pear note opens this one cleanly — bright, slightly watery, and uncomplicated.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA fresh pear note opens this one cleanly — bright, slightly watery, and uncomplicated. It sets a light, almost transparent tone before the floral heart emerges.
Lily of the valley and freesia arrive together, both cool and green-edged rather than heavily fragrant. The lily reads as the dominant flower: dewy and slightly soapy, with freesia adding a soft brightness. Neither flower pushes toward sweetness or richness.
Musk in the base keeps everything close to skin and extends the composition's airy quality. The overall character is gentle and clean — something between a freshly pressed linen and a garden after rain. Straightforward and undemanding.
Scent twins
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