Aliage
Aliage arrived in 1972 as something genuinely new: the first sports fragrance, designed for women who didn't want to stop being themselves when they moved.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Oakmoss70
- Vetiver50
- Cedar45
- Jasmine35
- Green35
By the editors · 2 min readAliage arrived in 1972 as something genuinely new: the first sports fragrance, designed for women who didn't want to stop being themselves when they moved. It remains radical fifty years later. Galbanum and green notes open with cold, bitter precision — there is nothing soft about this opening, nothing conciliatory. Peach offers a brief moment of fruit before the heart asserts itself: jasmine, pine, caraway, and rosewood forming a green-herbal accord that is simultaneously earthy and crisp.
The base is pure chypre: oakmoss, vetiver, myrrh, and cedar grounding everything in the rich, slightly smoky foundation that defined the era. This is a fragrance for people who move through the world with intention.
