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.
- Rose65
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Rose
- Orchid
- Jasmine
- Woody Notes
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readTrue Glow Nightfall opens with raspberry and rose simultaneously — a pairing that positions the fragrance between sweet-fruity and rosy-floral from the first moments. The rose-first approach rather than a fruit-leading structure gives the opening a slightly more formal register than the berry-dominant feminines common to 2008.
Jasmine and orchid deepen the floral accord through the heart, with orchid contributing a faint vanillic softness that complements jasmine's brightness without dulling it. Amber, musk, and a woodsy base note close the composition in a clean, warm drydown. A legible, well-constructed entry-level feminine with enough structure to feel intentional.
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.
