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.
- Caramel80
- Vanilla55
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Blackberry
- Freesia
- Violet
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBlackberry, freesia, and violet open in a soft, slightly stained sweetness — the blackberry leading dark and jammy, freesia and violet adding a powdery floral lift that keeps the top from feeling too compote-heavy.
Gardenia, magnolia, and jasmine fill the heart with a creamy white-floral plushness, the gardenia faintly mushroomy and indolic, magnolia adding a lemon-petal coolness. The middle softens and rounds out, the fruit still glinting underneath.
The drydown is where the gourmand identity surfaces. Caramel arrives unmistakable and rich, vanilla joining it for a confectionery sweetness, sandalwood and patchouli grounding the dessert with woody depth. Musk seals it warm and skin-close. A fruity-floral that turns dessert at the close, comforting and polished.
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.
