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.
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens clean and soapy, a luminous white-petal flash that immediately sets a bridal tone. Tuberose surges forward within minutes, its creamy, rubber-sweet heft swallowing the neroli brightness and pushing jasmine to the wings; ylang-ylang adds a banana-like oil sheen that keeps the heart from turning chalky. The white-flower saturated core stays linear for hours, losing only a touch of its indole edge as amber resin and sandalwood sift underneath, lending a mild, talc-powdered warmth rather than true wood. Silage stays arm-length for the first three hours before it collapses to skin, leaving a faint, freshly-laundered linen impression that feels daytime-formal. Best where heat can animate the ylang and amplify the petals: spring weddings or summer garden parties.
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.
