Deep Instinct
Pineapple and pear create a sweet, tropical fruity opening that is bright and slightly aqueous in character.
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.
- Tropical70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Pear
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Amberwood
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple and pear create a sweet, tropical fruity opening that is bright and slightly aqueous in character. Cardamom introduces a fresh-spicy accent that cuts through the sweetness and adds complexity. Orange blossom emerges with a soft floralcy while violet contributes a powdery, slightly earthy undertone to the heart. Amberwood provides a dry, synthetic woody base that lacks the richness of natural amber but offers structural support. Musk adds a clean, skin-hugging quality that ensures the scent remains intimate and wearable. The composition stays relatively linear after the top notes fade, with the fruity-floral accord dominating throughout. Projection is moderate initially but settles close to the skin within two hours. Ideal for daytime casual wear in warmer seasons.
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.
