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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cedar
- Incense
- Olibanum
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a dry, papery heat that quickly lets cedar splinter through, giving the top a splintery, almost pencil-shaving crispness. The incense heart arrives almost immediately, fusing the cedar into a single resinous plank while olibanum adds a lemon-peel brightness that keeps the smoke from turning dense. Sandalwood in the base steadies the accord, its creamy lactones softening the cedar’s grain and letting the incense smolder quietly rather than billow. On skin the scent stays linear: the opening flash of spice recedes into a steady cedar-incense ember that hovers close for four to five hours. Projection remains office-polite; wear it in cool weather when you want woods without sweetness.
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.