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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
- Amber
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens powdery-sweet and slightly candied, the kind of opening that reads as cosmetic-feminine immediately. There's no citrus or green counterweight in the structure, so the powderiness sets the entire mood early.
Tuberose, jasmine, and mimosa expand the heart into a heady white-and-yellow floral mass — tuberose creamy and slightly mentholic, jasmine indolic, mimosa adding fluffy honeyed warmth. Pear and rose float through as supporting fruity-floral textures.
Amber and Virginia cedar close in a warm-woody-powdery register, amber soft and skin-clinging, cedar dry to keep the powder from going dusty. The overall character is a violet-tuberose powdery floral with a quiet ambery-wood floor — projects steadily, suits cooler weather, evenings, and dressed-up casual contexts.
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.
