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.
- Leather55
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Quince
- Nectarine
- Orchid
- Jasmine
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readSlip Into Daring starts with a ripe, juicy trio of nectarine, quince, and pear — orchard-bright and clean. The heart shifts into an unexpected direction: orchid lends an airy, waxy quality, peony adds softness, and jasmine a low-pitched floral richness. Leather in the base draws everything toward something intentionally grown-up, cut with vanilla and sandalwood that mellow its edge.
The contrast between the sweet orchard opening and the dry leather base is the structural point — this is Avon reaching toward a more complex feminine rather than simply pleasant. Best in the evening or cooler months when the leather reads as warmth rather than hardness.
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.
