The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, its dry heat lifting grapefruit’s bittersweet zest and bergamot’s metallic edge into an effervescent snap. Labdanum arrives early, folding its leathery resin around the still-citrused air, while patchouli’s earthy leaf adds a cool, camphoraceous counterweight that keeps the amber from turning syrupy. As the heart settles, tonka bean’s soft almond facet smooths the seams, letting sandalwood’s creamy grain and cedar’s pencil-shave dryness drift in quietly. The dry-down stays close: a clean patchouli-amber skin tint laced with faint grapefruit sparkle, neither heavy nor bohemian. Projection remains office-polite for six hours, leaning casual through mild fall days.
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.
