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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Rosemary
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Basil
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom sparks the opening with a cool-green flash that lifts the crisp apple, while rosemary sharpens the edges into an iced-herbal breeze. Lavender and basil arrive together, swapping the fruit for a clean, softly camphor heart dusted with nutmeg’s dry heat, turning the accord from brisk to barbershop-polite. Labdanum and amber slowly bloom beneath the herbs, their resinous warmth knitting the spices into a sheer woody glow that lingers close to cotton rather than skin. Cedar keeps the base tidy, extending the aromatic theme so the scent reads like chilled gin settling into polished wood after the ice melts. Projection stays handshake-close for six hours, perfect for office air-conditioning or post-gym refresh on warm spring mornings.
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.
