Frames Essence
Ivy opens with a sharp, green, slightly bitter signal — unusual as a top note and setting an aromatic, almost vegetal tone from the first moment.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ivy
- Rum
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIvy opens with a sharp, green, slightly bitter signal — unusual as a top note and setting an aromatic, almost vegetal tone from the first moment. The composition is intentionally sparse.
Rum dominates the heart, lending a boozy sweetness that contrasts with the green opening. The pairing reads as fresh-green-meets-warm-sweet, with little transitional bridge between the two phases. Patchouli and musk arrive almost immediately as the base.
The drydown is short and clear: earthy patchouli with a soft musk wrap. The overall composition feels more like a sketch than a finished portrait, holding together through its boldness rather than complexity. Better suited to casual, warmer-weather contexts.
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.
