Spirit
Galbanum slices through bergamot and ylang-ylang with a bitter green blade that keeps the opening crisp rather than lush.
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.
- White Floral90
- Mossy80
- Green70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slices through bergamot and ylang-ylang with a bitter green blade that keeps the opening crisp rather than lush. The heart piles on white florals—tuberose dominates, its rubbery sweetness amplified by repeating ylang-ylang, while jasmine and lily-of-the-valley add soap-bubble lift and rose gives a polite nod to tradition. Moss and oakmoss swarm the base, drying the petals with a cool forest floor accord; sandalwood smooths the edges, amber and vanilla supply quiet warmth, patchouli brings earthy leaf litter, and musk keeps the whole bouquet hovering just above skin. Projection stays civil for the first three hours, then collapses into a soft green-amber skin veil that lingers through a workday. Cool-weather formal wear is its natural habitat: the moss backbone needs low humidity and a collar to frame it.
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.
