The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open bright and effervescent, their citric oils sheared clean of pithy sweetness, creating a cool sparkle that settles within minutes. Jasmine steps forward first, adding a faintly indolic creaminess that softens the citrus edges, while lily of the valley injects aqueous green crispness and peony contributes a papery pink lift, together forming a sheer white floral heart that stays translucent rather than lush. Patchouli arrives early in the base, offering a dry, cocoa-brown earth tone that quietly anchors the flowers without overt woodiness, as iris dusts the composition with cool, carrot-seed powder and a clean skin musk blurs the seams. During the dry-down the scent loses its citrus glare and becomes a softly powdered floral skin scent, more linen than bouquet, with patchouli’s earth acting as a muted anchor.
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.
