Ancestry
Ancestry opens with a brisk citrus cluster — lemon, orange, and bergamot — sharpened by thyme and the dark tang of black currant.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readAncestry opens with a brisk citrus cluster — lemon, orange, and bergamot — sharpened by thyme and the dark tang of black currant. Lavender sits close behind, giving the opening an aromatic, slightly herbal character that keeps the citrus from reading as purely fresh.
The heart brings jasmine, rose, and peach together in a soft floral-fruity accord. Lily of the valley adds a green, watery note that prevents the florals from becoming heavy. The overall heart reads as classic and approachable.
Sandalwood and cedar in the base provide a dry, lightly woody finish, with amber adding modest warmth and musk smoothing the edges. The composition is balanced and familiar — a structured floral with aromatic and fruity support.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
