The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Iris
- White Musk
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles over bergamot, the cardamom lending a soft-spicy warmth that steers the citrus away from cologne territory. Iris lands early, its cool, carrot-root powder sheening the spices into a clean, violet-tinged heart that feels like pressed white shirt fabric. White musk and vetiver tighten the frame, while vanilla and amber melt into a blond wood base that stays matte rather than sweet, the cedar chips keeping everything upright. Wear tests show a six-hour skin glow with polite projection for the first two, then a sheer woody musk veil that reads shower-fresh. Office-safe through dinner dates, spring to early fall, and performs best when humidity can coax the iris to bloom.
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.