The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris70
- White Floral60
- Citrus50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Iris
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and chalky, dusting the bright bergamot-lemon tandem with a matte violet-powder filter that mutes the citrus sparkle rather than amplifying it. Neroli and orange blossom arrive quickly, their honeyed white-floral radiance lifting through the iris veil to create a soft, soap-clean heart that feels more like expensive hotel linen than Mediterranean grove. The moss note emerges early, lending a muted forest-floor dampness that steers the composition away from fresh territory; cashmeran adds a clean blond-wood hum while ambroxan stretches the white musk in a sheer, salt-mineral direction that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite, making it office-safe yet interesting for spring weekdays when you want iris without pastry.
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.