Notre Dame 15.4.2019
Galbanum slashes open with bitter green sap, slicing through bergamot’s sparkle to establish a cold, resinous spine that persists.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Ginger
- Moss
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Basil
- Neroli
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes open with bitter green sap, slicing through bergamot’s sparkle to establish a cold, resinous spine that persists. Iris and basil fold in next, their dusty powder and peppery herb softening the edges while vetiver and patchouli churn up damp earth beneath. The heart is brief: lily-of-the-valley offers a fleeting soapiness before incense and sandalwood re-assert the smoky-woody core, now sweetened by a double dose of tonka that warms like toasted almond. Amber never dominates; instead it acts as a transparent lacquer, letting the camphoraceous ginger and moss keep the dry-down austere and slightly metallic. Projection stays arm’s-length for six hours, casting a church-bench chill perfect for cool spring mornings or gray autumn offices.
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.
