The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy80
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and saffron open together, the pepper crisp and slightly metallic, the saffron lending a dry, almost leathery warmth beneath it. Bergamot provides brief citrus lift before receding. The opening combination reads modern and slightly edgy rather than traditional oriental.
Freesia and rose emerge in the heart, though saffron keeps the floral notes from reading as purely soft. Suede in the base is the most distinctive element here — it adds a smooth, skin-close texture that anchors everything without adding heaviness. Vanilla softens the transition.
The overall effect is a spiced rose suede — warm but not sweet, feminine but with enough dry spice to avoid being overly soft. Sillage is moderate and controlled.
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.
