Silver Shade
Silver Shade opens broadly, stacking bergamot, lime, lemon, black currant, violet leaf, and plum into a dense fruity-citrus chord more complex than the typical mainstream opening.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Iris50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Plum
- Lime
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readSilver Shade opens broadly, stacking bergamot, lime, lemon, black currant, violet leaf, and plum into a dense fruity-citrus chord more complex than the typical mainstream opening. The civet and ambergris in the base signal older construction conventions — they add a faintly animalic warmth that keeps the iris-rose heart from feeling sterile or generic. Tonka bean rounds the whole structure without sweetening it into gourmand territory. The result is a polished, full-structured feminine: accessible but more textured than most fragrances in its price range, rewarding in dry weather where its facets can open properly.
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.
