German Cologne
Gardenia and rose open together in a dense white-pink floral pairing — gardenia adding its creamy, slightly mushroom-tinged richness against rose's familiar structure.
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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.
- Floral70
- White Floral60
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Rose
- Amber
- Musk
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and rose open together in a dense white-pink floral pairing — gardenia adding its creamy, slightly mushroom-tinged richness against rose's familiar structure. The opening is full and unhurried.
Amber and musk compose the heart. The transition feels abrupt: the florals give way quickly to a soft balsamic-musky middle, with little floral persistence into the heart phase. The composition reads as front-loaded floral with a warm middle.
Vetiver closes the composition. The drydown is dry and earthy, vetiver providing a green-rooty anchor against the lingering musky-amber sweetness. Overall a floral-amber with an earthy vetiver tail, classical in feel and slightly retro in construction. Cooler weather and evening contexts suit it; sillage settles to close-skin within hours.
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.
