This Is Not A Blue Bottle 1.3
Three notes, three acts.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather80
- Rose60
- Citrus60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Saffron
- Rose
- Leather
- Leather
- Saffron
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThree notes, three acts. Blood orange opens juicy and slightly bitter, more peel than pulp, with the dry red glow of saffron crossing it almost immediately. The heart resolves to a rose that reads more wine than flower, dried and slightly fermented against the spice.
The base drops to leather alone — smooth, cured, faintly smoky — and the composition closes there. The architecture is bare on purpose: nothing hides, nothing pads. What you smell is what's there. It wears intimate, more skin and scarf than projection, the kind of fragrance that asks to be leaned into.
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.
