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.
- Tropical50
- Sweet50
- Floral50
- Musky
By the editors · 2 min readBeige opens with a dry, powdery clarity that recalls pressed linen and pale suede—an impression of texture more than scent. The heart is built around hawthorn blossom, which brings a peculiar honeyed sharpness, almost metallic in its brightness, softened by barely-there freesia and lily. As it settles, a sandalwood and musk base emerges, pale and clean, reinforcing the impression of something laundered and austere rather than sensual.
This is Chanel at its most restrained, refusing ornamentation. The name is literal: beige in tone, beige in mood. It suggests quiet mornings, empty galleries, the color palette of an Agnès Martin painting.
Best suited to those who prefer fragrance as understatement rather than announcement—a scent that occupies space without demanding attention, chosen deliberately for its refusal to seduce.
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.