The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant snaps open with a tart, almost cassis-candy edge that feels more energy-drink than forest. Ginger arrives immediately, sharpening the fruit into a fizzy, peppery sparkle that crackles across the first five minutes. Cardamom folds in a warm, sweet-spice creaminess that softens the ginger’s bite and links the top to the resinous base. Labdanum and amber merge into a caramel-amber panel, thick enough to anchor the spices yet still sheer and synthetic, while patchouli supplies a clean, chocolate-free earth that keeps the sweetness from clinging. On skin the opening effervescence collapses within an hour, leaving a transparent ambery skin-warm close to the body. Projection stays polite—arm-length at best—making it office-safe; the residual spiced amber works best in cool spring or crisp fall weather when a little synthetic warmth is welcome.
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.
