The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Marine70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Melon
- Mint
- Sea Water
- Lotus
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readMint, melon, and pineapple open it — sharp, watery, candy-fruit. The mint cuts the fruit's sweetness, giving the top a deliberately frozen edge. It's about temperature first, fruit second.
Sea water carries through into the heart, where lotus and violet add a thin floral cool. The flowers don't bloom; they tint. The whole middle reads as a single layered impression: chilled, slightly aquatic, faintly powdery, never warm.
The base is woody-amber, light enough that it doesn't fight the freshness above. This is a hot-weather summer fragrance — daylight, beach, sport — and it leans aquatic-ozonic in a way the broader Cool Water Woman line usually softens. Don't expect longevity; expect the impression.
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.
