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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readJasmine opens plush and narcotic, dripping indolic sweetness that the plum’s bruised-purple flesh makes darker and almost wine-like. Ylang-ylang slides in within minutes, its banana-like custard sheen turning the white floral core creamy while patchouli leaf cuts through with dry cocoa dust, preventing cloying thickness. As skin warmth increases, the woods rise: guaiac smolders quietly, lending a faint smoked-tea rasp that thins the tropical custard into something more unisex. The perfume stays close, a skin-haze of creamy florals over soft embers, projecting no farther than a handshake yet lingering eight hours. Cool fall evenings, silk blouses, low-lit restaurants.
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.
