The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Musky95
- Vanilla75
- Balsamic70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Ambrette
- Grapefruit
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAmbrette and grapefruit open with a soft, slightly musky citrus character — the ambrette seed lending an almost skin-like quality from the very start rather than waiting for the base. The grapefruit is bright but restrained, more a freshness than a sharp fruit.
Patchouli and rose form the heart, with the patchouli kept in check, contributing earthiness rather than darkness. Musk runs throughout the composition, amplifying the skin-close quality at every stage.
Benzoin, tonka, and vanilla build a warm, balsamic base that adds depth without becoming heavy. The result is a musk-centred fragrance with soft floral and sweet-balsamic support — intimate, smooth, and well-suited to close skin wear year-round.
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.
