The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky85
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke holding still. The single declared note is incense, and the perfume reads almost as a study — resinous, faintly church-like, with a dry sandalwood-and-frankincense warmth left implied rather than spelled out.
It opens cool and grey, then settles into a softer rosin glow as it warms on skin. Linear by design, atmospheric rather than narrative.
Reads best in cool weather, late hours, contemplative settings — a quiet wear rather than a statement.
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.