The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Violet90
- Powdery70
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Tuberose
- Violet
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readViolet dominates from the first breath, cool and powdery with a faintly sweet metallic edge that recalls crushed petals. The heart keeps the violet center stage while tuberose adds a creamy white-floral lift, preventing the composition from sliding into childhood crayon territory. Mandarin’s brief citrus flash at the opening tightens the violet’s sweetness, then exits within minutes, leaving the florals to stretch over the clean blond woods. Sandalwood and cedar in the base stay light, sanding the edges of the florals without adding heft, so the scent remains translucent and slightly dusty on skin. Projection hovers at arm’s length for four to five hours, a quiet veil perfect for spring office days or weekend museum wandering.
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.