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.
- Honey80
- White Floral70
- Lactonic60
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lemon
- Apricot
- Grass
- Gardenia
- Vanilla
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readApricot and lemon arrive first, a fuzzy-citrus flash sharpened by green grass that keeps the fruit from going syrupy. Gardenia soon dominates, its creamy petals thickened by iris powder and a second hit of apricot, creating a lactonic white-floral heart that smells like warm skin slicked with peach lotion. Vetiver threads through the sweetness, lending a blond-woody spine, while amber and honey slowly caramelize the praline base into a toasted-sugar finish that lingers close. Projection stays intimate, projecting no farther than a handshake, yet the honeyed trail survives a full workday. Spring and early summer office wear, especially under light humidity.
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.
