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.
- Marine80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Clove
- Patchouli
- Suede
- Marine
By the editors · 2 min readPomelo opens with the sharpness of grapefruit cutting alongside a dewy marine accord — fresh, slightly saline, and bright without sweetness. Rose appears but stays restrained, pushed into the background by the citrus-marine combination.
As clove and vetiver emerge, the composition shifts register: earthier, more textured, with the spice adding a dry edge that prevents the marine freshness from feeling flat. Patchouli deepens this without turning the fragrance dark.
Suede in the base anchors everything with a soft, dry finish, while musk keeps the sillage discreet. The result is a structured, marine-adjacent floral with earthy grounding — unusual and wearable, particularly during warmer months near water or open air.
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.
