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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Pink Pepper
- Papyrus
- Cumin
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens hot and oily, its sweat-salted spice immediately crackling against the electric snap of pink pepper. The two top notes fuse into a dry, almost papery heat that carries straight into the heart where papyrus adds a brittle, green-smoke facet, sharpening the spice rather than softening it. Cumin resurfaces in the base, now quieter, skin-warmed and slightly musky, extending the peppery crackle for hours without additional sweetness or wood. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent clings like dry heat on cotton. Best worn at night in cool weather when its arid spice can glow instead of smother.
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.
