The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Vanilla70
- Caramel70
- Honey20
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Raspberry
- Cyclamen
- Freesia
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readA soft vanilla-floral pitched at comfort. Raspberry and freesia open sweet and pink — the raspberry plays jam-bright against the freesia's powdery-watery character.
The heart layers jasmine, lily of the valley, mimosa and violet over vanilla and caramel: a creamy, slightly toasted floral bouquet that keeps tipping toward dessert. Mimosa adds a yellow, almost honeyed warmth; violet handles the powder; caramel and vanilla pull the whole heart into nursery-sweet territory.
Musk closes the drydown clean and skin-warm, holding the sweetness without amplifying it. A gentle cool-weather wear, comfortable rather than statement-making — better for daytime closeness than for projection.
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.