The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Musky55
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Clementine
- Grapefruit
- Mandarin Orange
- Neroli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLittle Italy is a study in restraint. Clementine, mandarin, and grapefruit open simultaneously bright and slightly bitter — this is citrus as place, not sweetness. There is nothing ornamental about it.
Neroli arrives in the heart as both floral and citric, a note that could belong to either category. It extends the opening without changing its character, adding a faint soapiness that stops short of cologne territory.
Musk is the only base, making the drydown dependent on skin chemistry entirely. The fragrance reads as deliberately spare — a pocket-sized sketch of a sunny afternoon in lower Manhattan, without the elaboration that might have made it something else.
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.