The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Aromatic50
- Iris50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright and peppery, with cardamom adding a warm, almost resinous bite against bergamot's citrus clarity. Pink pepper provides snap rather than heat, creating an energetic first impression that feels more metropolitan than floral.
As it settles, iris takes center stage with its characteristic coolness—powdery but not sweet, almost mineral in quality. The spices from the top linger at the edges, preventing the iris from becoming too austere or old-fashioned. This middle phase has a silvery composure, like polished concrete in morning light.
The base brings cedar and vetiver into conversation with skin musk, grounding the composition without heaviness. It wears close and linear after the first hour, maintaining its cool-spicy character throughout. Best suited to those who want something crisp and unfussy, urban without being aggressive.
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.
