Paragon
Paragon opens with sage, lavender, and bergamot in close alignment — three clean, aromatic notes each contributing a different kind of freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy55
- Woody55
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Plum
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readParagon opens with sage, lavender, and bergamot in close alignment — three clean, aromatic notes each contributing a different kind of freshness. Sage reads slightly medicinal and green, lavender adds a gentle floral-herb softness, bergamot provides citrus lift. Together they make an opening that is quiet and deliberate rather than attention-seeking.
Black pepper and plum in the heart provide contrast: plum's dark sweetness and black pepper's dry warmth shift the composition away from the fresh aromatic register without fully abandoning it. The pairing is effective — the fruit-spice combination gives the middle act a slight tension that the opening doesn't have.
Sandalwood in the base is minimal — smooth, creamy, providing a landing pad for the spiced-plum heart. A fragrance that rewards the wear rather than the first impression.
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.
