Gardenia 2021
The opening is a clean, slightly soapy orange blossom that suggests white petals rather than citrus zest.
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.
- Vanilla70
- Chocolate70
- Floral65
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Coffee
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a clean, slightly soapy orange blossom that suggests white petals rather than citrus zest. It feels more laundromat than Mediterranean grove, which isn't a criticism—just clarity about what kind of white floral this is. Within minutes, coffee emerges, not as espresso but as the smell of beans in a paper bag, dry and faintly nutty.
The vanilla base rounds everything into a soft, approachable composition that wears close to the skin. The gardenia itself is more implied than literal, a creamy backdrop rather than an indolic statement. This works best as an everyday fragrance for someone who wants something gently sweet without sugar, floral without drama. It doesn't ask much of you and delivers exactly what the notes promise, no more and no less.
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.
