The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Iris70
- Yellow Floral60
- Powdery60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Iris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens clean and soapy, flooding the first minutes with a bright white-floral creaminess that feels freshly ironed. Ylang-ylang steps in early, adding a custard-yellow richness that folds the neroli sweetness into something rounder and faintly banana-like. As the heart settles, iris dries the composition, turning the cream oily and starchy so that the tropical edge is muffled under cool violet-tinged powder. Sandalwood emerges slowly, supplying a quiet blond wood that keeps the powder airborne while musk anchors it to skin with a clean-laundry hum. The result is a pale, pastel veil that stays close the body, projecting no farther than a silk scarf and dissolving into a soft woody-musk skin scent after four hours. Wear it to the office through spring; cool spring mornings let the orange blossom glow without turning cloying.
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.
