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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- White Musk
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readRosemary and pink pepper open with a bracing, slightly metallic clarity — the herbal lift comes first, the spice trailing half a beat behind, neither sweet nor heavy.
Vetiver and cedar form the middle, dry and rooted. There's a quiet earthiness here, a sense of cool air over wet stone, with the lemon and mandarin from the citrus accent still lingering at the edges. It reads as outdoorsy, gym-bag-clean rather than perfumed.
The base is mostly white musk and amber over a mossy floor, finishing the composition with skin-warm restraint. The whole thing stays linear and aromatic, more uniform than evolutionary — a fresh fougère leaning sporty and gentleman.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
