Manhattan
Manhattan opens with a dense collision of saffron, ripe peach, bergamot, and nutmeg — immediately rich, the fruits pushing forward while the spice adds a savory backbone that prevents it reading as simple gourmand.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 21 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.
- Chocolate70
- Oud65
- Honey55
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Peach
- Coriander
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Immortelle
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readManhattan opens with a dense collision of saffron, ripe peach, bergamot, and nutmeg — immediately rich, the fruits pushing forward while the spice adds a savory backbone that prevents it reading as simple gourmand.
The heart is extraordinarily layered: dark plum, honey, gingerbread, beeswax, jasmine, and immortelle. Each note is discernible at the edge of the composition rather than blending into mush, but collectively they feel like walking into a warmly lit room at night, every surface lacquered.
Oud and sandalwood anchor the base, labdanum and patchouli thickening the texture to something almost resinous. This is a deliberate statement scent — extravagant by design, and precisely calibrated for cold weather evenings.
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.
