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
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Violet
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia and violet open softly — the freesia fresh and slightly watery, the violet adding powdery depth. The pairing is gentle and feminine, with no sharp edges or dramatic contrasts in the opening.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, and benzoin form the base — a warm, balsamic foundation that gives the fragrance staying power beneath the soft floral top. The tonka adds a faint almond-vanilla quality that blends well with the benzoin's sweet resinousness.
The dry-down is a warm powdery floral — the violet quality persisting through the base, softened by sandalwood creaminess and balsamic warmth. A classic, comfortable feminine structure: soft flowers over warm wood and resin.
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.
