Orcas
Ginger and lime open brisk, the rhizome’s heat slicing through tart citrus while Virginia cedar adds dry wood shavings that keep the top from turning sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Marine80
- Salty60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lime
- Virginia Cedar
- Seaweed
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and lime open brisk, the rhizome’s heat slicing through tart citrus while Virginia cedar adds dry wood shavings that keep the top from turning sweet. Seaweed sweeps in at the heart, replacing fruit with low-tide salt and green iodine that clings to the cedar and turns the whole accord coastal rather than culinary. Amber in the base warms the composition, but the marine residue persists, so the dry-down reads as sun-bleached driftwood rather than plush resin. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, a skin-close salty breeze suited to cool spring mornings beside the water.
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.