Blue Violet
Apricot opens with a fuzzy, lactonic sweetness that feels like sun-warmed skin dusted with sugar.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody70
- Lactonic60
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Apricot
- Sandalwood
- Civet
- Vanilla
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readApricot opens with a fuzzy, lactonic sweetness that feels like sun-warmed skin dusted with sugar. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy wood folding the fruit into a soft, oily haze where vanilla adds a rounded, edible warmth. Civet slips in underneath, lending a quietly musky growl that keeps the confection from cloying; the effect is apricot leather rather than dessert. Vetiver and myrrh dry the base, injecting cool, earthy root and a wisp of bitter incense smoke that lingers after the fruit retreats. Projection stays close, a skin-borne glow rather than a cloud, perfect for late-summer evenings when you want a whisper of something both velvety and slightly feral.
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.



