The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Peony
- Rose
- Bamboo
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens with a bright, fizzy sparkle that reads more fruity than spicy, leading quickly into a soft floral heart. Peony and rose unfold dewy and pale, while bamboo lends a watery green transparency that keeps the bouquet light.
The development is brisk: the florals stay watercolor-thin, never building into anything heady, and the bamboo continues to thread a cool, almost aquatic freshness through the middle. Sandalwood smooths the base with a soft creamy presence, vetiver adds a mild rooty edge, and the whole composition fades quietly. Projection is intimate from the start, the texture light and crisp.
Overall the character is a clean fresh-floral built around rose and dewy green — pleasant, easy, and short-lived, more spring afternoon than statement.
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.
