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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens clean and bright, slicing quickly through humid air. A quartet of jasmine, peony, freesia and rose blooms within minutes, the jasmine lending a soft indolic edge that keeps the bouquet from turning soapy, while peony adds aqueous green accents that echo the calibration neighbours' aquatic signatures. Sandalwood and Virginia cedar arrive together, the former supplying creamy lactones that cushion the white petals, the latter sharpening the base with a dry pencil-shaving wood that prevents the musk from clouding the finish. Over two hours the flowers recede, leaving cedar-musk skin musk that still flickers with citrus peel whenever body heat rises, a quiet cold-tea effect that fits sleeveless summer days. Projection stays within handshake distance, perfect for office or travel in warm weather, and the transparent dry-down survives three to four hours before needing re-spray.
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.