Dagger
Lavender dominates the opening, its clean herbal bite sharpened by lemon’s tart edge and bergamot’s faint metallic sparkle.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its clean herbal bite sharpened by lemon’s tart edge and bergamot’s faint metallic sparkle. The citrus flash is brief; within minutes vetiver’s dry grass-smoke rises through the lavender, picking up patchouli’s cool, loamy crumble to create an earthy aromatic core that feels more rugged than refined. Amber and vanilla warm the base, turning the woods faintly sweet and powdery, while musk blankets the accord in a soft, skin-close haze that quiets projection after two hours. Sillage stays polite—arm’s-length at peak—making it office-safe yet present through a workday. Cool spring or early-fall days fit best, when the lavender-vetiver dialogue can breathe without heat flattening its modest complexity.
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.
