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
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot slices through the opening with a cool metallic edge that feels more aldehydic than citric, setting up a bright white-floral flash. Jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive together, their buttery facets amplifying the aldehydes while lily-of-the-valley injects a watery green snap that keeps the heart from turning creamy. Rose stays low, lending a faint powdery lift rather than overt bloom. As the white flowers settle, tonka bean folds in a soft almond sweetness that marries with sandalwood’s dry creaminess, while vetiver and cedar carve out a clean, woody spine that stops the base from sugaring. Virginia cedar’s pencil-sharp dust lingers longest, flanked by quiet amber and skin-close musk. Projection stays polite—arm’s length for three hours—making it office-safe yet still recognisably floral. Cool spring mornings or air-conditioned interiors let the aldehydic sparkle survive.
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.
