Intensity
Lavender opens cool and clean, slicing through the air with a barbershop edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pear
- Iris
- Vetiver
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and clean, slicing through the air with a barbershop edge. Within minutes, pear arrives, juicy and crisp, letting iris float over it, turning the blend into a sheer, slightly sweet floral-fruit layer that never cloys. Vetiver and Virginia cedar anchor the base, adding dry, grassy wood that reins in the sweetness while keeping the lavender’s aromatic spine upright. The transition is smooth: citrus-sharp top, powdery fruit heart, woody-musk trail that stays close to skin after two hours. Projection stays office-polite, a soft aura for spring days or cool summer mornings when you want clean without soap. Composition is linear, so what you spray is what you get, just quieter.
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.