The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral55
- Tuberose50
- Rose50
- Sweet
By the editors · 2 min readBond No. 9 Perfume opens with a bright burst of citrus and peach that feels both juicy and slightly green, the kind of sharpness that makes you notice the scent immediately. The opening yields quickly to a dense bouquet of white florals—gardenia and jasmine threading through tuberose—anchored by patchouli that keeps the composition from turning too sweet or too bright.
What emerges is a perfume that wears close to the skin with surprising warmth. The fruit never quite disappears, lingering as a soft halo around the flowers, while the base adds a gentle muskiness that rounds out the sharper edges. It feels deliberate in its accessibility, neither too bold nor too minimal.
This is a straightforward floral for someone who wants presence without projection, suitable for warm weather or situations where subtlety matters more than statement. It fits comfortably into the contemporary feminine category without attempting reinvention.
Scent twins
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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.
