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.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and lemon burst open with a candied brightness that feels like crushed red berries meeting sharp citrus zest. The heart folds orange blossom’s clean lactonic cream into violet’s cool powder, while rose adds a soft pink fullness that keeps the accord from turning too cosmetic. As the sugar burns off, irisky iris and creamy tonka latch onto skin-warmed sandalwood, letting the violet-powder skeleton linger for hours. Projection stays polite, a pastel trail that sits close yet refuses to collapse into skin. It’s a daytime floral that works best in spring and early fall when you want sweetness without gourourmand heft.
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.