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
- Woody50
- Tropical50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Heliotrope
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min read# Killing Me Slowly by By Kilian
Black currant arrives with a tart, almost vinous brightness that immediately cuts through the sweetness you might expect from the name. It's a sharp opening, borderline astringent, before heliotrope begins to soften the edges with its powdery, marzipan-like warmth.
As it settles, rose and iris weave together in a way that feels both classic and slightly off-kilter—there's a lipstick-like quality, nostalgic without being explicitly retro. The vanilla in the base never turns gourmand; instead, it acts as a quiet anchor, letting the heliotrope's almond facets and the iris's cool rootiness remain the focus.
The result is a study in contrasts: sweet but not sugary, floral but not fresh, enveloping without being heavy. It suits someone drawn to the idea of elegance with a touch of deliberate strangeness—a scent that doesn't announce itself but lingers just beyond easy definition.
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.
