Possession
Galbanum snaps open with bitter green resin that drags bergamot’s citrus into stem-like territory, while sage adds a camphoraceous 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.
- White Floral80
- Mossy80
- Green70
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Lily
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter green resin that drags bergamot’s citrus into stem-like territory, while sage adds a camphoraceous lift. The heart blooms into a layered white-floral mass: magnolia’s cool wax, ylang’s custard richness, and jasmine’s indolic thrust sit over iris’s chilled starch and violet’s powder, creating a plush, almost aldehydic bouquet. Hours later the base folds that floral cloud into tonka-vanilla softness, ambergris salt, and a musky sandalwood-oakmoss chord that keeps the sweetness dry and shadowed. Projection stays civil, wafting a retro-luxury sillage perfect for cool autumn evenings or a vintage-themed dinner. Complexity is high as each wave of flowers, then balsams, takes its turn without ever losing the galbanum-green spine.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
