The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Fresh Spices
- Geranium
- Coumarin
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is built for impact — frozen apple set against bergamot and lemon, with a metallic, faintly cooling edge that mimics speed and air rather than fruit. It reads as a deliberately synthetic, contemporary citrus opening rather than a natural one.
The middle thins out fast. Geranium gives a green-rosy spike; the spice accord behind it is generic and warm-leaning rather than sharp. The composition functions less as an arc and more as a transition into the base.
Where it actually lives is the dry-down — leather threaded through coumarin's hay-tonka softness, benzoin for resinous depth, musk and a skin accord smoothing everything close to the body. The result is a familiar mainstream men's profile: cold-bright on top, sweetly leathered underneath, comfortable in cooler weather and casual evening wear.
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.
