The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Magnolia
- Violet
- Rose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and grapefruit open with a citrus burst that reads clean and energetic before the floral heart of magnolia, violet, and rose takes over. The magnolia adds a creamy softness while violet contributes a slight powdery sweetness alongside rose's classic warmth.
Vetiver, amber, and vanilla arrive in the base alongside cedar and patchouli. The vetiver is the most distinctive base element, giving the drydown a dry, earthy counterpoint to the sweeter ingredients. Vanilla and amber warm everything without fully sweetening it.
Star Wars Dark is a citrus-floral oriental shaped for accessible everyday use. The floral heart is its primary phase; the vetiver base gives it more character than the category average. Best in mild weather across casual or date contexts.
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.
