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.
- Smoky90
- Leather65
- Tobacco60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and frankincense at the top, the saffron leathery and slightly bitter, the incense dry rather than sweet. The heart layers more incense over jasmine and amber — the jasmine almost lost in the smoke, present as a soft pulse rather than a clear flower.
The base is where the composition settles: cured tobacco and leather over cedar and vetiver, with patchouli giving an earthy bottom. Reads like a Middle-Eastern attar interpreted at parfum strength — heavy projection, hours of dry-down, no concession to lightness. Cold weather only. A statement scent rather than a daily one.
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.
