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.
- Musky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Vanilla50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Peony
- Coffee
- White Musk
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readForbidden Kiss opens with a citrus-spice bite — grapefruit's bright bitterness undercut by pink pepper's dry, slightly fruity heat. The heart is the most interesting element: peony's clean, slightly green-floral presence paired with coffee creates a contrast that reads as gourmand-floral rather than simply sweet.
The base resolves into musk and vanilla, clean and soft, the kind of finish that wears close to skin. More restrained than the original Amor Amor's heat — this flanker substitutes brightness and contrast for unabashed sweetness.
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.
