The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMint snaps open cool and green against bergamot's metallic citrus, creating an aromatic chill that reads almost ozonic. Gardenia and jasmine arrive early, their creamy white-floral weight softening the chill while black pepper adds a prickly heat that keeps the heart from turning lush. The florals thin quickly, letting cedar's dry pencil-shaving wood take over, musk adding clean skin proximity and amber only a faint resinous glow. On skin the mint lingers longest, now warmed by pepper dust and wood, projecting a bright aromatic haze for about five hours before collapsing to a cedar-musk whisper. Office-friendly year-round, strongest in spring air conditioning.
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.
