Vinyl
Lemon opens alone and sharp, almost bracing — there's no aromatic chord around it, just the citrus standing as its own bright entry point before the smoke arrives.
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.
- Tobacco60
- Vanilla60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Heliotrope
- Tobacco
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens alone and sharp, almost bracing — there's no aromatic chord around it, just the citrus standing as its own bright entry point before the smoke arrives.
The heart pairs heliotrope with tobacco — almond-cherry powder against dry leaf — a contrast that smells like a record store: paper sleeves, old vinyl warming under shop lights, something faintly sweet and slightly burnt.
The base is amber, vanilla, cedar and patchouli, melting the contrast into a soft warm gourmand-woody close. The arc is short — citrus, then a long sit on tobacco-vanilla-amber — and it reads cozy rather than dramatic. Best for cool evenings; on hot skin the vanilla can flatten into something less interesting.
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.
