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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and orange blossom launch a bright, soapy white-floral glare that feels bridal-shower clean. Gardenia and ylang-ylang arrive within minutes, adding creamy heft and a faint banana edge; vanilla folds into the petals, turning the bouquet velvety rather than sharp. Benzoin and amber warm the base, lending a soft, resinous glow that muffles the flowers without hiding them, while musk sits close to skin, extending the white veil into the dry-down. Projection stays polite, wafting a clean floral halo for several hours before collapsing into a skin-scent glow. Office-safe through spring and summer ceremonies, it behaves like a pressed linen dress: crisp at first, then gently warmed by body heat.
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.