The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Honey50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Violet
- Neroli
- Mimosa
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readHoney and violet open together — honey contributing a warm, slightly waxy sweetness while violet adds a cool, slightly powdery floral note. The pairing is gentle and slightly old-fashioned in character.
Lily of the valley appears in the base, lending a fresh, green-floral quality that lightens the honey's weight. Musk closes the composition close to the skin.
The overall effect is a soft, sweet floral with a powdery undercurrent — the honey-violet-lily of the valley combination reads as quietly feminine, clean, and understated. Not a heavy oriental despite the honey. Better suited to daytime wear where its soft projection is appropriate.
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.