Shelter Island
Shelter Island opens sharp and saline — black pepper crackles against lemon, then seaweed pulls the citrus down toward kelp and wet rope.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Salty70
- Marine65
- Amber60
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Seaweed
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readShelter Island opens sharp and saline — black pepper crackles against lemon, then seaweed pulls the citrus down toward kelp and wet rope. The first ten minutes feel like wind off a bay.
What surprises is where it goes: oud, myrrh, and amber rise from underneath, turning what began as a marine sketch into something resinous and dim, almost smoky. Sandalwood threads them together while musk softens the edges.
The contrast is the whole point — coastal air over a low woody ember. Wears best in cooler weather when the resins have something to push against, evening more than day, and rewards a closer wearing distance.
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.