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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Peach
- Apricot
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readMiyako opens with yuzu cutting cleanly through ripe peach and apricot, a brief citrus-fruit brightness that carries an almost juicy quality. The transition is quick — within minutes the fruity top softens and a quiet floral presence begins to emerge.
Osmanthus and jasmine define the heart, the osmanthus reinforcing that apricot-leather character it naturally carries, while jasmine adds a touch of white-floral warmth. Leather appears underneath, not aggressive, more like a smooth surface beneath fabric.
Sandalwood, cedar, and patchouli build a grounded dry base with musky continuity. The overall impression is a polished fruit-floral leather — the fruit ripe rather than candy-sweet, the leather tactile rather than sharp.
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.
