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.
- Herbal65
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lime
- Mint
- Freesia
- Vetiver
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and lime lead with a sharp, energetic opening — the pepper is dry and cracked rather than sweet, and the lime stays tangy without veering into cleaning-product territory. The combination is bracing from the start.
Mint and freesia bridge the opening into the heart with a cool herbal lift. Thyme adds a culinary-herbal note that gives the composition an interesting savory edge rather than a purely fresh trajectory. Vetiver in the base grounds the whole structure with its earthy, slightly smoky dryness.
The overall effect is a fresh-spicy aromatic built around contrasts — citrus brightness against vegetal depth, cool mint against dry vetiver. It projects well initially before settling into a closer, more skin-level finish.
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.
