The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- White Floral50
- Green50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Mint
- Neroli
- Petitgrain
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens clean and waxy, its honeyed petals catching daylight through neroli’s bitter-green squeeze. Mint slips in almost immediately, slicing the floral sweetness with cool blades that make the white petals feel transparent rather than creamy. Petitgrain drags the composition back toward twig and leaf, adding a dry, tea-like rasp that steers the heart away from conventional bridal bouquets. Musk in the base stays low, filtering the earlier greens through a soft grey lens so the final skin impression is laundered cotton still holding a trace of crushed stems. Projection remains polite, hovering just inside personal space, ideal for office days when spring sunlight already supplies the warmth. Wear it rolled-up sleeves, early commute, before the city’s asphalt has time to bake.
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.