Description
In autumn 2012 House of Sillage presents limited editions Emerald Reign, limited edition Nouez Moi, limited edition Holiday by House of Sillage and the Signature Collection which also includes Cherry Garden, Love is in the Air and Benevolence.
All fragrances are made by acclaimed noses from France, and they are all different—gourmand, fresh, floral—and all very wearable. The number of bottles for each of the six fragrances is very limited, but they will always be available in refill bottles, which are less expensive and still very attractive.
“A gift wrapped in the promise of a journey where the sacred essence of love becomes the source of immortality.” Benevolence is a floral, sweet, and powdery vanilla fragrance. It contains notes of bitter almond, Tunisian orange blossom and vanilla from Madagascar. The nose behind this fragrance is Francis Camail.
perfilevan – :
Pure almond frangipani cake. The cake in a bottle plus orange blossom and vanilla liqueur. Very gourmand and you need to like sugar accords. It does not evolve with the time, rather keeps all the notes linear, just looses a bit the liqueur side to end fully into Mandorle di Sicilia by Acqua di Parma. So if you look for a little bit more saturated version of MDS, this one is for you provided you want to pay 360 USD for the 75 ml. Me I don’t. For less it’s a nice almond frangipane when you want a sweet gourmand but at that price range it’s disproportionate to the fragrance (maybe it’s because of the bottle).
maklerok – :
The opening for Benevolence is a dead ringer for Kilian Sweet Redemption – an extremely candied, rootbeer-y orange blossom. It settles into a somewhat powdery orange blossom, almond and lavender scent. Definitely a very sweet scent (like most from this line), it reminds me of a candied version of L’Artisan Séville a L’aube. The Kilian scent is a close twin, but it was too rootbeer-y on me and the orange blosssom had an off note. Benevolence has a lovely lavender note and the bitter almond (which is nutty, not the pure powder almonds of the loukoum genre) to keep the sweetness in check. I feel like Marie Antoinette from the Sofia Coppola movie when I wear this – pastel sweetness. It’s not really my style but I still really like it!
Vasek313 – :
My favorite one in this brand
I can’t write a real review for it because I have tried in perfume shop with a tired nose,still I’m sure that I’d love it and I’d love to own this amazing bottle
It’s an almondy,star anis vanilla scent, somehow in the vein of acqua di parma mondorlo Sicily and Dior HP,but it also has a healthy dose of orange flower,Jasmine and powder.it’s sweet,warm,cozy,enveloping and delicious with satisfying longevity and great sillage
I will definitely buy it whenever I have enough money
Engennapneuro17 – :
This is delightful!! It so reminds me of Love By Kilian. The fragrance is even the same color. It is so smoothly blended. Plenty of syrupy smooth eatable vanilla, a small bit of orange blossom with a sugar coating. Not a sugary mess like some. This is so smooth. Never harsh. Just well blended with the right amount of each note. I don’t get the root beer mentioned. Or much of the other notes. If so they are well blended into this lovely concoction. It seems very gourmand to me. It’s as if you can almost taste it. It is ever so slightly powdery in the dry down. Same goes for the musk note. But the vanilla is the main star of this attraction. I was given a manufactures sample in a swap. And I’m so pleased to have experienced it. Makes me want to further explore the house. And this now goes onto my want list.
Longevity and silage are above average.
Lovely wafts of these pleasing notes surround you like a soft cloud.
Longevity is 5+ hours and still going.
NamiD – :
the bottles look like luxury jeweled mushrooms.
Benevolence is an extremely powerful vanilla, purest vanilla blended with orange blossom and a little powdery note. I could not smell star anise, which is normally an overpowering note, pleasant but dominant.
It’s a beautiful addictive scent that really washed out my brain. I kept smelling the paper and my wrist all the time. It smells a little bit new world to my nose, very big and loud, not a subtle multi-layered evocative scent. It’s something I would smell on a rich overdressed lady with big blond hair from a movie set in California. Nothing I look like.
This perfume is rather a brick on your head but what a luscious brick it is! The name is weird but it makes sense for a perfume that makes you feel enveloped in sweetness and delight. Great lasting power.
floonfrot – :
In a word. ROOT BEER.
Glad I tried it before my shower. Yikes what a strong and unpleasant scent.
PM if you want my sample. Maybe it will smell better on you.
нафтан – :
i love this line, i love strong sweet scents too- but this fragrance is nauseatingly potent and strangely rootbeer-y on me. not my favorite.