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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, slightly green fruitiness that immediately sets a bright, juicy tone. Jasmine and peony create a soft, creamy floral heart where the jasmine adds an animalic undertone that keeps the bouquet from feeling too clean, while peony contributes a watery, almost dewy petal texture. Gardenia weaves through the heart as well, lending a lactonic creaminess that smooths the transition into the base. Sandalwood, vanilla, and patchouli form a warm, woody foundation: sandalwood provides a milky wood veneer, vanilla rounds edges with a soft sweetness, and patchouli gives an earthy, slightly camphorous lift that prevents the dry-down from turning sugary. On skin the black currant fades within thirty minutes, leaving the white-floral creaminess to hover close while patchouli maintains a gentle earthy pulse for hours.
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.