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The opening is a taut contrast: pear and plum offer coolness and weight, but not sweetness in the conventional sense.
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.
- Woody75
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Plum
- Fig Leaf
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a taut contrast: pear and plum offer coolness and weight, but not sweetness in the conventional sense. They read almost green, a fruit skin dampness that sets the tone for something restrained. As it settles, fig leaf emerges with its mineral, latex-like sharpness, tempered by guaiac's slight smokiness and jasmine that stays low and soapy rather than floral in the decorative way.
The dry-down leans into sandalwood and amber with cedar lending structure, while patchouli and musk keep it from going soft. It's a woody composition that stays close to the skin, more about composure than projection. This suits someone who wants the finish of a fragrance without the announcement, a scent built for discretion rather than entrance.
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.
