The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and pencil-sharp, slicing through bergamot's brief citric sparkle to create a cool wood-forward first impression. Jasmine sweeps in within minutes, adding a clean white-floral lift that softens the cedar's rigidity, while iris layers a powdery, slightly violet-grey veil that blurs the edges and introduces a makeup-bag nuance. Amber arrives slowly, warming the woods from beneath with a low, resinous glow, and musk sheathes everything in a skin-hugging wash that quiets projection after two hours. The scent stays close, a tailored shirt rather than a statement coat, projecting an arm's-length radius for about five hours before fading to a clean cedar-musk trace. Office-friendly year-round, it feels most at ease in mild spring or autumn weather when the iris-amber accord can breathe without overheating.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
