Karess
Apple opens with a crisp, juicy fruitiness that is sweet and slightly tart, setting a bright tone.
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.
- Sweet70
- Rum60
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Coconut
- Rum
- Clary Sage
- Moss
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readApple opens with a crisp, juicy fruitiness that is sweet and slightly tart, setting a bright tone. Coconut adds a creamy, tropical richness while rum introduces a boozy, warm sweetness in the heart. Clary sage contributes an aromatic, herbal nuance that provides a counterpoint to the sweetness. Moss and labdanum form an earthy, slightly resinous base that grounds the composition with a damp, green character. Ambergris adds a saline, animalic warmth while honey lends a sticky, golden sweetness to the dry-down. Sillage is moderate, projecting a sweet-aromatic aura that settles into a skin-close trail with fair longevity. Best for evening wear in warm weather or tropical settings.
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.
