Dragonfly
A bright, slightly fizzy opening of lemon and grapefruit carries ginger beneath it — fresh-spicy rather than sweet.
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.
- Floral80
- Powdery70
- Iris60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Basil
- Heliotrope
- Peony
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
By the editors · 2 min readA bright, slightly fizzy opening of lemon and grapefruit carries ginger beneath it — fresh-spicy rather than sweet. Heliotrope and peony begin to emerge quickly, adding a soft, slightly powdery floral layer that blunts the citrus before the top fully fades.
In the heart, violet leaf and iris take over alongside mimosa and rose. Iris pushes toward the powdery end, while the violet leaf stays green and slightly damp — the two balance each other reasonably well without either dominating.
The base is dense: sandalwood, vetiver, tonka, benzoin, moss, and patchouli all together. It settles into a warm, powdery-mossy finish with amber rounding the edges. Complex and unhurried — this one evolves across several hours.
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.
