The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Mossy80
- Rose70
- Iris70
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Aldehydes
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Neroli
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Miss Dior opens in a wash of aldehydic brightness — powdery, slightly soapy, laced with galbanum's green bite and gardenia's creamy fullness. As the top lifts, a dense floral accord unfolds: carnation and narcissus edged with iris powder, underscored by jasmine and rose in a composition that reads as deliberately cultivated rather than wild.
The base is the true hallmark — oakmoss and leather laid over vetiver and labdanum, the full architecture of a chypre now largely inaccessible in its original form due to IFRA restrictions. This is what a Dior fragrance smelled like in 1947, when the house also launched the New Look: structured, opulent, and entirely of its moment.
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.
