Axis
Axis opens with pear, mint, and bergamot — a fresh citrus-fruit pairing where the mint provides a cooling brightness.
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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Mint
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAxis opens with pear, mint, and bergamot — a fresh citrus-fruit pairing where the mint provides a cooling brightness. The pear is sweet but not heavy, the bergamot adding polish and lift.
Ylang-ylang and rose constitute the heart: the ylang with its distinctive tropical richness, the rose providing a classic floral anchor. Together they shift the composition from fresh to warmly floral without a jarring transition.
With no base notes declared, the drydown relies on the heart notes fading. The note prior suggests yellow-floral dominance, which the ylang-ylang fully supports. A light, fresh-floral with a tropical heart — approachable and casual, suited to warmer weather. The structure is simple but coherent.
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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.
