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.
- Cinnamon60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Cedar
- Galbanum
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, cinnamon, and saffron open with warmth and an immediate spice density — the saffron lending a dry, almost leathery edge from the start. Cinnamon stays sharp rather than sweet, and the ginger reinforces the heat.
Cedar and galbanum bring a surprising green, resinous clarity to the heart. Galbanum in particular cuts through the spice with a cool, almost bitter quality, preventing the composition from becoming too heavy too early.
Incense, oud, and frankincense close the fragrance in a deep, smoky-balsamic register. The resin here is full and persistent. Musk keeps it from feeling entirely austere. The result is a spare, serious fragrance built around smoke, resin, and dry spice with very little sweetness.
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.
