The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Orange Blossom
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA small composition in scale and intent. Basil and orange blossom open together — herbal-green against white-floral, a slightly sour brightness that lasts only a few minutes before the basil thins out.
The middle is held almost entirely by lily of the valley, kept clean and cool, the kind of fresh-floral that reads as soap-adjacent without crossing into shower-gel territory. There's not much development; what you smell at minute ten is roughly what you'll smell at minute thirty.
The finish is a soft, generic musk with little character. This is a youthful daytime fragrance — closer to a refined cologne than a perfume — meant for spring afternoons, casual wear, contexts where projection is not the goal.
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.
