Musk
Lemon and bergamot open with a brisk, sunlit sparkle that feels more kitchen-sink than cologne, the zest stripped of sugar and laid against cool air.
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.
- White Floral60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Freesia
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a brisk, sunlit sparkle that feels more kitchen-sink than cologne, the zest stripped of sugar and laid against cool air. Orange blossom arrives quickly, turning the citrus from sharp to softly honeyed, while freesia adds a watery green lift that keeps the heart translucent rather than creamy. Vetiver threads an earthy, slightly smoky rootiness through the base, grounding the white petals and preventing the musk from turning plush; iris doubles down on powder, giving the dry-down a chalky skin-tone finish that reads clean rather than animalic. Amber never warms the composition—it acts like clear varnish, sealing the musk in a neutral, close-wearing veil that lingers as freshly laundered cotton. Projection stays within arm’s length for four hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper, making it office-safe and spring-leaning.
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.
