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.
- Rose80
- Fruity70
- Mossy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lychee
- Labdanum
- May Rose
- Oakmoss
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLychee launches first, its juicy rosé grape brightness giving the opening a chilled-fruit lift that feels almost effervescent. Labdanum slides in within minutes, heating the fruit with a resinous ambered leather edge that keeps the sweetness adult rather than candied. At center stage, May rose unfurls in full-petaled velvet, its honeyed spice folding the lychee’s watery sugars into a plush, satin-red bloom. Oakmoss and patchouli seed the underside, supplying cool forest loam and a quiet camphoraceous snap that reins in the floral excess and extends wear. Musk settles last, a skin-warmed, salt-tinged haze that blurs edges and lets the rose hover just off the collar through the afternoon. Moderate projection stays office-friendly; cool spring or mild fall days suit it best.
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.
