Encounters
Bergamot and lavender open with familiar clarity, but castoreum and cinnamon quickly signal something more confrontational underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Animalic90
- Cinnamon75
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lavender open with familiar clarity, but castoreum and cinnamon quickly signal something more confrontational underneath. The rose heart is barely sweet — it feels pressed between animal warmth and dry spice rather than blooming freely.
Sandalwood, oud, and benzoin accumulate in the base into something dense and resinous. Ambergris gives a faintly salty, skin-like quality that keeps the weight from becoming suffocating. Castoreum adds a raw edge throughout. This is a heavy, deliberately complex composition that rewards patience — it shifts noticeably across hours and reads differently on skin than in the air.
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.
