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.
- Green75
- Oakmoss70
- Jasmine65
- Tuberose60
- Iris55
By the editors · 2 min readA green floral from an era when perfume didn't whisper. Fidji opens with galbanum's bright, almost bitter sharpness, cut with citrus and the cool powderiness of iris. The tuberose arrives not as creamy indolic drama but tempered, folded into a framework that keeps the composition taut and surprisingly fresh.
As it settles, jasmine and ylang-ylang emerge through that green lens, their richness never allowed to become heavy. The violet adds a fleeting softness. The base pulls everything earthward with oakmoss and vetiver, a classic chypre structure that anchors the flowers without drowning them.
This is garden-party elegance with an edge, more Rive Gauche intellectual than country-house genteel. It wears best on those who don't mind smelling like they have opinions, and who remember when "fresh" meant galbanum, not laundry musk.