The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readEau Océane opens on lemon and bergamot with a thread of ginger behind them — clean, tart, and lightly spiced without announcing itself. The citrus is well-integrated rather than blaring.
Jasmine and iris emerge in the middle phase, adding a soft, slightly powdery quality that tempers the brightness of the top notes. The transition is smooth, the floral layer staying restrained rather than dominant.
The base of oakmoss, cedar, and musk brings a green, faintly earthy foundation that keeps the whole composition grounded and readable as a fresh aquatic-adjacent fragrance. Sillage is modest. It functions well in warm conditions and suits daytime wear where something clean but not generic 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.
