The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Green70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening, releasing a cool, peppery green snap that the bergamot sharpens into a crystalline citrus edge. The heart folds in iris and ylang-ylang: iris dusts the greens with a dry, carrot-seed powder while ylang adds a faintly banana-sweet lift that keeps the composition from turning austere. Rose is only a whisper, softening the transition so that the base lands smooth rather than bitter. Dry-down is mostly vetiver and oakmoss; the vetiver brings a cigarette-ash smokiness, the moss a brackish forest floor dampness, both glued by benzoin’s honeyed resin. Projection stays polite, a citrus-green aromatic suited to collar-shirt weekdays and temperate spring afternoons.
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.
