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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Floral
By the editors · 2 min readJersey opens with a jolt of lavender that feels less like a spa and more like fresh laundry left to dry on windswept cliffs. The herb is sweet but never cloying, cut through with a barely-there citrus brightness that keeps it from turning powdery. As it settles, a musky vanilla emerges—soft, skin-close, and almost nuzzling in its warmth. There's a hint of something salty or mineral beneath, like sun on bare arms after a swim in cold water.
This is Chanel's vision of casual luxury: an expensive cashmere sweater thrown on over nothing in particular, hair still damp from the sea. It skews feminine but not exclusively so, and works best on people who don't need to announce themselves loudly. Jersey feels personal, domestic even, a fragrance for weekends rather than events.
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.
