Sake
Grapefruit and ginger open crisply, with the ginger lending a fresh bite that keeps the citrus from reading as purely sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Grapefruit
- Lily of the Valley
- Vanilla
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and ginger open crisply, with the ginger lending a fresh bite that keeps the citrus from reading as purely sweet. The opening is light and clean, moving quickly toward the heart.
Lily of the valley introduces a soft floral note that blends with peach and osmanthus — the latter bringing a gentle fruity-floral character that references apricot skin more than anything explicitly sweet. Vanilla begins to emerge here, warming the mid-stage gradually.
The base settles into a soft musk and vanilla accord, with sandalwood providing quiet depth. The overall impression is a clean, slightly fruity floral with a warm musky finish — approachable and wearable across many occasions.
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.