Kaori
Kaori — Japanese for scent itself — opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside bamboo, an accord that reads as clean and slightly green rather than tropical.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Citrus60
- Iris55
- Musky55
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Blackcurrant
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Bamboo
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readKaori — Japanese for scent itself — opens with grapefruit and bergamot alongside bamboo, an accord that reads as clean and slightly green rather than tropical. The single-note magnolia heart is deceptively complex on skin: a large, lemony floral that can shift between soapy and sophisticated depending on body chemistry. The base defies easy categorization: vetiver and iris introduce earthy, rooty dimension, while raspberry contributes subtle sweetness, and amber with musk provide a warm framework for it all to settle into. A well-resolved feminine fragrance that wears as well in a busy office as in quieter contexts.
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.
