Bath & Beauty
Galbanum slices through the citrus-violet opening with a bitter-green blade that feels almost metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Honey80
- Green70
- Iris60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slices through the citrus-violet opening with a bitter-green blade that feels almost metallic. Lemon and bergamot retreat within minutes, letting the green stalk dominate while a powdery violet cushion forms beneath. The heart is a thick swirl of honeyed iris: ylang-ylang boosts the waxen texture, jasmine keeps the floral lift, and repeated honey folds everything into a slightly sticky, pollen-dusted fondant. After an hour the base darkens; frankincense and benzoin resin smoulder quietly, cedar sharpens the edges, and a second wave of honey re-enters carrying amber, vanilla and a muted patchouli musk that stays close to wool rather than skin. Projection becomes a low, warm hum best appreciated in cool autumn air or under a heavy scarf.
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.