Shamisen
Juicy pear and tart black currant create a crystalline opening that feels like biting into chilled orchard fruit.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Heliotrope
- Freesia
- Rose
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readJuicy pear and tart black currant create a crystalline opening that feels like biting into chilled orchard fruit. The heart weaves heliotrope's almond-like creaminess through freesia's watery green and a soft, tea-stained rose, producing a delicate floral haze that blurs the crisp top. Cedar arrives early, drying the bouquet to a clean wood veneer while white musk stretches the fruit into a soap-lather glow that lingers close to skin. Wear it projects arm's-length for three hours then collapses to a cotton-soft skin scent perfect for office air-conditioning or humid summer mornings when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
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.
