Prelude
Orange and bergamot lead with a bright, familiar citrus preamble that fades quickly into the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Animalic60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot lead with a bright, familiar citrus preamble that fades quickly into the heart. There is a faint aldehydic shimmer in the opening that ages the structure in an unmistakably vintage direction.
Cinnamon moves to the front in the heart, pairing with jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose. The floral arrangement is warm and slightly powdery, the cinnamon sharpening rather than sweetening the blend. Ylang adds a banana-adjacent creaminess that keeps the rose from reading purely as a soliflore.
Civet, benzoin, amber, vanilla, and patchouli close the composition in a dark, animalic-balsamic accord. The base is the most expressive phase — resinous, slightly musky, and clearly from an era when base notes were meant to be noticed.
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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.
