The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Chocolate70
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Hazelnut
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with tart blackcurrant and apple, bright and almost candied, like a confectionery window in winter. It's immediately playful but not juvenile—there's a sharpness to the fruit that keeps it from tipping into simple sweetness. Within minutes, hazelnut and orange blossom emerge, creating an unusual creamy-floral bridge that softens the initial intensity while adding a hint of something roasted and warm.
The drydown settles into cocoa-dusted amber with patchouli lurking beneath, earthy enough to ground all that gourmand sweetness but never dominating. The apricot gives a velvety, almost suede-like texture to the base. It's unabashedly fruity and sweet, but wears closer to the skin than you'd expect—more intimate than loud.
This feels designed for someone who wants approachable warmth without powdery florals, and who doesn't mind a composition that leans openly into dessert territory. Evening wear, cold weather, when subtlety isn't the goal.
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.
