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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that shears off quickly, leaving a clean wood scaffold. Heart layers of sandalwood, guaiac and cedar lock together into a dry, blond timber accord that smells more like fresh-cut crates than creamy oriental sandalwood. Throughout, a discreet white musk underpins the woods, stretching their lifespan without adding sugar; it feels like laundered cotton left on a workbench. After two hours the cedar dominates, guaiac’s smoke puffs once, then the scent relaxes into a unobtrusive skin-wood haze that stays polite for the rest of the day. Projection sits within handshake radius; best for temperate offices or casual spring strolls rather than evening 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.