Metaphore WJ
Bergamot and thyme open with a bright, slightly medicinal herbal-citrus snap that quickly folds into jasmine's indolic white floral heart.
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.
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and thyme open with a bright, slightly medicinal herbal-citrus snap that quickly folds into jasmine's indolic white floral heart. Cedar keeps the jasmine airy while patchouli adds a faintly earthy tobacco undertone that prefaces the darker base. Leather emerges first, dry and crackling, soon lacquered by honey's sticky amber glow and a ribbon of cured tobacco that carries patchouli's cocoa-rich earth forward. Suede softens the accord, blurring edges so the composition smells like worn leather steeped in sweet smoke rather than a cigar. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, then collapses to skin, making it a cool-evening scent for casual dinners or late cafés.
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.
