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.
- Powdery100
- Iris90
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min read**Chanel No. 19 Poudré** opens with a peculiar tension—galbanum's green bite softened by neroli, as if someone placed gauze over a knife's edge. The iris arrives almost immediately, not rooty or damp but finely milled, giving that characteristic powdered quality that explains the name. This isn't face powder from a compact; it's the chalky, slightly metallic residue left on fingertips after handling iris rhizomes.
As it settles, jasmine provides just enough warmth to keep the composition from turning completely austere, while vetiver adds a dry, papery texture beneath. Tonka and musk round the base without sweetening it significantly—this remains a cool fragrance, deliberate in its restraint.
No. 19 Poudré suits those who find the original No. 19 too sharp but still want something uncompromising. It occupies a narrow territory: formal without being dressy, soft without being comforting, feminine in an androgynous way. A fragrance for grey cashmere and uncluttered rooms.
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.
