Paris
Paris opens with a rosy shimmer that feels both powdery and green, the mimosa and orange blossom creating a hazy, spring-morning softness rather than anything sharp or citric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Rose95
- Floral65
- Powdery60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Mimosa
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readParis opens with a rosy shimmer that feels both powdery and green, the mimosa and orange blossom creating a hazy, spring-morning softness rather than anything sharp or citric. The bergamot stays in the background, letting the florals do most of the talking from the start.
As it settles, the heart becomes a full-bodied rose bouquet layered with jasmine and violet, the kind of composition that feels unabashedly romantic without tipping into sweetness. There's a soapy cleanness from the lily of the valley that keeps it from feeling heavy, even as the florals pile on. The ylang-ylang adds a faint creaminess, but this remains a rose-dominant fragrance throughout.
The base brings sandalwood and a whisper of oakmoss, giving the florals a vintage framework without overwhelming them. The iris and heliotrope contribute a soft, talc-like texture. This is an old-fashioned floral that wears like silk scarves and lipstick blotted on tissue—graceful, feminine, and utterly uninterested in being discreet.
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.
