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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Mossy80
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a brief citrus spark that quickly folds into peony’s cool, waxy petals. The heart stacks jasmine, lily, ylang-ylang and rose into a thick yellow-floral chord, creamy and pollen-rich, edged by ylang’s banana-toned sweetness. Oakmoss and patchouli crawl up from below, drying the bouquet with earthy fuzz and a quiet bitter-green snap. Ambergris and benzoin simmer underneath, lending salt-skin warmth and a powdered resin glow that keeps the flowers from turning sugary. Vanilla and sandalwood arrive late, smoothing the mossy shadows into a soft, grey-amber haze that lingens close to skin. Projection stays polite, a scented scarf rather than a cloud; best for cool autumn days at the office or a restrained dinner out.
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.
