The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Rum70
- Woody60
- Lavender60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Rum
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readA late-90s aromatic-oriental for men. The opening is bright and slightly fizzy — yuzu and bergamot lifted by a curl of rum and the dry crackle of cardamom. It feels groomed rather than fresh, like cologne after a shave.
The heart turns aromatic with lavender and clary sage; the base is where the perfume actually lives. Sandalwood, oakmoss, and incense draw a green-resinous frame around vanilla and benzoin, which together build a soft amber. The dry-down is warm, faintly smoky, and stays close — workplace-friendly but unmistakably evening-leaning.
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.
