Triptych
Sandalwood dominates with a creamy, milk-fed density that absorbs the lemon’s first flash rather than letting it sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Marine60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Lemon
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood dominates with a creamy, milk-fed density that absorbs the lemon’s first flash rather than letting it sparkle. The citrus folds quickly into the wood, creating a muted, waxy brightness that feels internal rather than radiant. Ambergris adds a cool, mineral saltiness that lifts the sandalwood from below, preventing the accord from turning buttery while giving the rose a weather-worn, sun-bleached character. Rose arrives late, thin and papery, more dried petal than bloom, stitched to the wood by the ambergris’ saline thread. Over hours the lemon fully disappears, leaving the sandalwood-rose core to settle into a close, skin-warmed musk that smells like beach-worn driftwood. Projection stays within arm’s length; best for cool spring days or casual office wear where quiet presence is valued.
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.
