Sea Island
Sea Island opens on seaweed and bergamot — immediately marine and citrus-fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Seaweed
- Bergamot
- Rosemary
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readSea Island opens on seaweed and bergamot — immediately marine and citrus-fresh. The seaweed reads slightly salty and aquatic rather than heavy or vegetal.
Rosemary, ylang-ylang, and rose form the heart — an unusual combination where rosemary's sharp herbaceousness contrasts with ylang-ylang's tropical sweetness and rose's classical warmth. The result is complex for three notes.
Sandalwood, seaweed again, and patchouli close with woody earthiness and continued marine character — the repeated seaweed note anchoring the marine quality throughout. Overall this is an aquatic fragrance with herbal and woody depth, leaning more coastal than synthetic-aquatic. Better suited to warm-weather outdoor settings.
Scent twins
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