JCC No. 2
Galbanum slashes through the creamy gardenia and bergamot top, creating a bitter-green flash that instantly signals 1980s opulence.
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.
- White Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes through the creamy gardenia and bergamot top, creating a bitter-green flash that instantly signals 1980s opulence. The heart piles white blossoms—jasmine, ylang, lily—atop iris and rose, letting sandalwood warm the bouquet while iris dusts it with cool powder. Leather and castoreum crawl up early, stretching a smoky hide across the florals so the bouquet never feels clean; patchouli and olibanum darken the background with earthy incense. Amber finally liquefies the woods and resins into a glowing, animalic glow that hovers close but lasts overnight. Projection stays civil—arm-length sillage—yet the leathered amber trail lingers on coats; cool fall evenings and dressed-up restaurants are its native climate.
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.
