The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Floral65
- Rose60
- Mossy55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readFendi opens with the bright complexity of an Italian perfumer's complete toolbox: neroli and lemon over bergamot and freesia, with cardamom providing warmth and the suggestion of spice. The top is sunlit and optimistic, the full opening of a fragrance confident in where it's going.
The heart is a formal statement: gardenia, jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, iris, and rose together — a white floral arrangement of consummate 1980s ambition, each note present without crowding. Leather and oakmoss in the base give it the classic chypre foundation; sandalwood, cedar, and tonka build warmth while vanilla smooths the leather's edge. Amber and musk carry it home. A luxury Italian classic from when perfumery still made maximalist statements.
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.
