Royal Freesia
Opens with Jasmine Sambac's heady, slightly indolic white-floral richness, joined by a smooth synthetic orchid that adds a creamy, abstract sweetness without pushing toward fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Powdery70
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine Sambac
- Orchid
- Orris
- Pink Pepper
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with Jasmine Sambac's heady, slightly indolic white-floral richness, joined by a smooth synthetic orchid that adds a creamy, abstract sweetness without pushing toward fruit. Pink pepper enters at the heart, prickling the warmth just enough to prevent cloying — a structural move borrowed from designer orientals. Orris grounds the composition with a dry, rooted powder that reads cool rather than soft. The cedar base is brief and clean.
The Thierry Mugler Alien comparison circulates widely: both share a white-floral-over-mineral structure, though Royal Freesia is softer and less diffusive. Despite the name, freesia is not detectable; the actual profile is an oriental floral leaning toward warm-weather evenings or cooler casual days.
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.