Catharsis
Neroli opens bright but quickly folds into nutmeg's dry, peppery warmth, creating a taut citrus-spice snap that feels more woody than floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Nutmeg
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
- Rose
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens bright but quickly folds into nutmeg's dry, peppery warmth, creating a taut citrus-spice snap that feels more woody than floral. The heart blooms with ylang-ylang's custard-like creaminess; saffron threads a leathery, iodine edge through the banana-sweet ylang, while rose keeps the accord from tipping into gourmand territory. As the top notes settle, cedar's pencil-shaving dryness meets guaiac wood's smoked-tea density, letting the earlier leather note re-emerge as a matte, suede-like skin scent rather than a glossy statement. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours before collapsing to a resinous, saffron-laced wood whisper that clings to cuffs and scarf fibers. Cool autumn evenings, gallery openings, anything where you want intrigue without announcing the room.
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.
