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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Aromatic60
- Earthy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- White Pepper
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Cedarwood
By the editors · 2 min readStrictly arrives as a dry, close-textured spice study. Cardamom and nutmeg define the opening with precision — sharp but not aggressive, more kitchen than marketplace. There is no citrus entry to soften the edges; it begins exactly where it means to continue.
Vetiver grounds the composition with its characteristic earthy dryness, pulling the spices downward into something more austere. Tonka bean contributes a faint almond-tinged warmth that stops the vetiver from becoming too stark. The two base materials create a tension between dry and soft.
The overall character is restrained and linear, projecting minimally but with good persistence. This suits cool weather and occasions where understatement matters.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
