The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Cinnamon55
- Vanilla55
- Amber55
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Basil
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Orange Blossom
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readHalloween Man opens with violet leaf and basil — a green, slightly bitter combination that gives the opening more character than the brand name might suggest. Ginger adds a warm spice lift from the beginning, and mandarin brightens the accord. It's a fresher, more austere start than what the base will eventually reveal.
The heart pivots to warmth: cinnamon, lavender, and orange blossom together, a combination that reads as comfortably aromatic-oriental. Cinnamon adds heat, orange blossom a creamy-soapy floral quality, lavender its herbal softness.
Leather, ambergris, amber, and vanilla in the base are a classic warm oriental drydown executed without surprises but with genuine quality. Ambergris gives its characteristic marine-waxy warmth that distinguishes the base from simpler amber compositions. An affordable Spanish oriental that delivers more than its price category usually allows.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
