The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with bitter pith and aldehydic brightness, cutting through the weightier materials that follow. Vetiver lands next, its grassy smoke tethering the citrus to a dry, mineral earthiness while introducing subtle green facets. Cedar and patchouli merge in the base, cedar lending clean pencil-shave wood and patchouli providing a cool, chocolate-brown earth that keeps the composition austere rather than sweet. Over hours the grapefruit recedes, letting the vetiver-patchouli duo dominate, turning the scent into a matte, charcoal-grey wood that sits close to skin. Projection remains polite, a low-lying aura perfect for office days or humid climates where heavier ambers would suffocate. The overall wear is linear and refined, a modern minimalist sketch of earth, wood and sour citrus that stays crisp for about five hours before fading to a soft cedar-paper whisper.
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.