The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Tropical70
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Peach
- Grapefruit
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple opens first, its sweet-juicy facet immediately joined by peachy peach and a snap of tart grapefruit, creating a tropical fruit cocktail that feels sun-warmed rather than candied. Within minutes the heart blooms: tuberose takes the microphone, its creamy, faintly mentholated lushness amplified by ylang-ylang’s banana-skin sweetness, while jasmine adds indolic radiance and a clutch of violet, iris and lily-of-the-valley supply cool, powdery shading that keeps the white bouquet from turning syrupy. Rose threads a quiet red seam through the petals, lending a classical floral spine. As the petals relax, sandalwood’s dry, milky wood smooths the edges, amber spreads a soft caramel glaze, and clean musk drapes a skin-close sheet that muffles the earlier exuberance.
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.