Dianthus
The dianthus reference shows up in the spice — ginger and pink pepper give the heart a peppered-clove warmth even though no clove is listed, the kind of dry-petal edge that carnation accords always carry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Rose
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe dianthus reference shows up in the spice — ginger and pink pepper give the heart a peppered-clove warmth even though no clove is listed, the kind of dry-petal edge that carnation accords always carry. Citrus opens the top with rose woven through it, the rose more mineral than lush.
Vanilla and atlas cedar form the dry-down: a clean, slightly sweet wood without gourmand thickness, the cedar keeping the vanilla from going dessert. Musk closes the loop. It wears warm but never heavy — the kind of spiced floral that reads as polished rather than romantic, and stays close to the skin after the first hour.
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.
