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.
- White Floral60
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Raspberry
- Amber
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia opens with a creamy white-floral richness that carries a subtle fruity lift from raspberry. The heart retains this floral-fruity balance while amber begins warming the composition from below. Cedar provides a dry woody frame that prevents the sweetness from becoming cloying. Musk adds a clean skin-like texture that blends seamlessly into the dry-down. Wear remains relatively linear after the first hour, with floral and amber notes persisting evenly. Projection starts moderately but settles close to the skin within three hours. Best suited for casual daytime wear in cooler weather, with longevity around five hours.
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.
