Peony
Peony opens with tart pear and a blackcurrant edge that gives the first minutes some bite before the composition flowers into a dense heart of peony, rose, gardenia, and iris — four florals that collectively register as a single powdery white-flower chord rather than four distinct voices.
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.
- Rose65
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Gardenia
- Peony
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPeony opens with tart pear and a blackcurrant edge that gives the first minutes some bite before the composition flowers into a dense heart of peony, rose, gardenia, and iris — four florals that collectively register as a single powdery white-flower chord rather than four distinct voices. The base pulls sweet and heavy: black vanilla husk, tonka, and praline create a dessert-adjacent drydown that outlasts the floral by a noticeable margin. This skews feminine and unchallenging. The gourmand weight in the base makes it a better fit for cool evenings than for warm-weather daytime wear, when the sweetness risks amplifying.
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.
