Manifesto
Manifesto opens with a flash of green-black cassis, tart and bright, softened by bergamot's citrus glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Sweet70
- Vanilla60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readManifesto opens with a flash of green-black cassis, tart and bright, softened by bergamot's citrus glow. The introduction feels deliberate, almost stark in its clarity, before lily of the valley rises to claim the center. This isn't the dewy, spring-morning lily you might expect—it's denser, more concentrated, with a soapy-creamy smoothness that feels both retro and modern.
As it settles, tonka bean and vanilla arrive without sweetness overwhelming the composition. Instead, they lend a skin-like warmth that sandalwood and cedar quietly scaffold. The woods never shout; they hum beneath, giving the perfume structure without veering into overtly woody territory.
The result is polished and unapologetically feminine in a classical sense—composed, clean, more Grace Kelly than anything subversive. It wears close, best suited to someone who wants presence without projection, elegance without fuss.
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.
