Présence
Apple crisps against lemon and bergamot, a tart green flash that feels almost aldeic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris80
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readApple crisps against lemon and bergamot, a tart green flash that feels almost aldeic. Neroli keeps the opening bright while orris and heliotrope drift in, dusting the heart with cool violet-powder that turns the fruit metallic. Jasmine adds faint white petals, but the iris accord dominates, softening into sandalwood and cedar threaded with vetiver’s dry grass. Oakmoss and ambergris lend a salty, mossy undercurrent that steadies the composition through the late afternoon. Projection stays polite, a handshake rather than a hug; it thrives in spring offices or cool summer brunches where subtlety reads as polish. Complexity is moderate, yet the mossy iris trail lingers on cuffs well past six hours.
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.