The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Incense80
- Sandalwood50
- Tonka50
- Cedar40
- Black Pepper40
By the editors · 2 min readAtlas Fever reads as an exercise in constructive tension. The opener leads with incense and frankincense — two forms of the same thing, one raw and one processed, producing a doubled smokiness that pink pepper cuts with a brief metallic brightness. Narcissus occupies the heart alone: not the washed, indolic versions common in mainstream florals but something greener and more melancholic, the flower rather than the perfumer's extract.
The base assembles a quiet woody accord — guaiac wood and sandalwood both matte rather than creamy — over tonka and vanilla, keeping the drydown warm without sweetening it significantly. Subdued but persistent.
