Frangipane
Violet leaf and orange open green-citrus and slightly metallic, the violet leaf carrying a sappy-stem edge, orange giving a warm sun-fruit lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Orange
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and orange open green-citrus and slightly metallic, the violet leaf carrying a sappy-stem edge, orange giving a warm sun-fruit lift. The opening reads more verdant than juicy.
Incense, jasmine, and ylang-ylang turn the heart smoky-creamy — incense adding a cool resinous thread that contrasts the indolic warmth of jasmine and the banana-petal richness of ylang-ylang. The middle is more textured than the list suggests.
Amber, vanilla, vetiver, and musk close in a warm balsamic-vanillic register, vetiver giving a faint earthy spine that keeps the vanilla from going dessert. The overall character is a smoky-floral amber with a quiet vanilla finish — projects moderately, suits cool evenings, reads composed rather than ostentatious.
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.
