Paisley
Paisley opens with a warm cardamom-bergamot accord that feels simultaneously spiced and sunlit, skipping the usual citrus sharpness for something rounder and more inviting.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readPaisley opens with a warm cardamom-bergamot accord that feels simultaneously spiced and sunlit, skipping the usual citrus sharpness for something rounder and more inviting. The heart brings jasmine and ylang-ylang forward in a creamy, almost honeyed embrace, tempered by pink pepper that keeps the florals from turning too sweet or heavy.
As it settles, ambergris lends a mineral salinity that grounds the composition, while vanilla and patchouli create a soft, skin-close finish. The effect is less bohemian than the name suggests—this is polished rather than wild, with the spice and amber preventing it from reading as strictly feminine. It wears like a cashmere scarf: textured, comforting, quietly luxurious without announcing itself.
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.
