The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Vanilla50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Sichuan Pepper
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Leatherwood
- Black Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThree notes, deliberately spare. Sichuan pepper opens with a bright, numbing tingle — more electric than traditional black pepper, carrying a citrusy fringe that's closer to zest than spice.
Madagascar vanilla holds the heart, but not the baking-extract kind. Here it reads soft and almost savory, leaning toward cream and butter rather than sugar. The spice above makes it feel less sweet.
Leatherwood closes with a woody, honey-tinged depth specific to the Tasmanian tree — slightly floral, slightly resinous, unlike conventional leather or wood notes. The effect is intimate and skin-close. A fragrance for someone who already knows exactly what they want.
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.
