Hummingbird
Hummingbird opens with a basket of fruit — apple, pear, and plum — underscored immediately by violet leaf's green, slightly watery edge and the cool freshness of lily of the valley.
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
- Fruity80
- Honey70
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pear
- Violet Leaf
- Plum
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readHummingbird opens with a basket of fruit — apple, pear, and plum — underscored immediately by violet leaf's green, slightly watery edge and the cool freshness of lily of the valley. Rose appears early but softly, blending into the fruit rather than dominating.
The heart deepens with ylang-ylang and mimosa adding a honeyed, buttery floral layer. Honey itself is present and noticeable — warm and faintly animalic — while peony keeps the overall impression light enough to stay approachable.
Sandalwood and moss in the base provide a quiet earthy support. Amber brings mild warmth. The whole arc moves from bright fruity-floral to a gently honeyed, mossy finish — soft, rounded, and consistently approachable.
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.
