The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- White Musk
- Pear
- Vetiver
- Pear
- Vetiver
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readJasmine dominates the heart, blooming with a fresh, slightly green edge that keeps the white floral accord bright rather than syrupy. Lily of the valley adds a dewy, almost rain-kissed facet, softening the jasmine’s creaminess while amplifying the aquatic nuance. Pear enters early, lending a crisp, lightly sweet fruitiness that bridges the florals and vetiver, preventing any sharp green snap. As the vetiver warms on skin, its earthy rootiness turns the composition toward a clean, rain-soaked meadow rather than a plush white bouquet. White musk blankets the dry-down, extending the pear’s subtle sweetness while diffusing the vetiver into a skin-close haze. Projection stays polite, wafting an arm’s-length aquatic floral veil ideal for spring office days or humid summer brunch.
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.
