Yin 2
Peony arrives first, cool and faintly green, a petal-stacked heart that stays sheer rather than lush.
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.
- Amber70
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Peony
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readPeony arrives first, cool and faintly green, a petal-stacked heart that stays sheer rather than lush. Within minutes amber and praline rise, turning the flower translucent and glossy like sugar glaze on pale wood. Cedar keeps the base dry and linear, stopping the vanilla-musk tandem from sliding into custard; the result is a soft, nut-tinged skin glow instead of bakery gourmand. Projection stays close, a veil that folds into cotton sweaters and hair ends rather than announcing itself across a room. Best in cool spring air or an air-conditioned office where the musky praline haze can hover without overheating.
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.
