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.
- Almond70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a dry sparkle that lifts the bergamot into something almost fizzy. The heart layers jasmine's indolic creaminess over benzoin's honeyed resin, while rose keeps the floral line bright rather than heavy. As the base warms, tonka's marzipan softness folds into vanilla, turning the earlier sparkle into a skin-hugging almond-powder accord; sandalwood stays quiet, just enough wood to keep the sweetness from cloying. Projection drops to intimate within three hours, leaving a faint trail of cherry-almond that reads cosy rather than overtly sensual. Best for cool fall or mild winter days when you want comfort without gourmand excess.
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.
