The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather85
- Smoky70
- Oud60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Nutmeg
- Ambrox
- Leather
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readA leather opening hidden under a green-spice prelude: galbanum slashes against pink pepper, cardamom, and a flick of nutmeg, the spices peppery rather than warm. The heart drops the temperature again — ambroxan's mineral salt against animal leather, oud and ambergris adding a feral undertone that never fully tames.
The base is incense and dry wood. Frankincense, olibanum, and cypriol stack onto sandalwood, with patchouli and musk holding the bottom. Less plush than typical leathers; this one stays austere and slightly metallic. Suited to cold weather and low-light occasions.
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.
