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.
- Violet60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Violet
- Thyme
- Vetiver
- Black Pepper
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and violet make for an arresting opening — the pepper dry and dusty, the violet leafy and slightly metallic rather than candied. The pairing reads cool and slightly austere, with no citrus or sweetness to soften the entry.
Thy at the heart pushes the composition further into herbal-aromatic territory, adding a sharp green camphor-like facet that sustains the cool tone. Vetiver anchors the base, smoky and rooty, completing what feels like a deliberately spare modern masculine. The drydown holds the pepper-vetiver accord with the violet still flickering above. Linear and self-contained, more about atmosphere than progression. Best in temperate weather where the herbal facets stay sharp.
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.
