The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Chinese Tea
- Bergamot
- Tuscan Iris
- Neroli
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThree notes, deliberate intent. Chinese tea opens with a clean, slightly mineral bitterness — more restrained than green tea, without the vegetal edge, closer to white tea's refinement.
Bergamot at the heart is unconventional placement. Here it softens the tea accord with pale citrus diffusion rather than acting as a sharp opener. Worn in context rather than leading, it blurs the line between top and middle.
Tuscan iris — the Florentine variety, rare for its violet-root character — closes with a dry, powdery, slightly buttery depth. Together the three notes describe a still moment: a porcelain cup at dusk, a room with light fading. Precise, intimate, and costly in the best sense.
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.