The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and citrus — bergamot, lemon, grapefruit — open with a clean, lively snap. Pink pepper and ginger join quickly, adding warmth without turning hot. The combination reads as fresh-spicy rather than aggressively sharp, with the citrus dispersing fast but leaving a clean trail behind.
Guaiac wood takes over the structure in the base, carrying a soft, smoky woodiness that distinguishes it from dry cedar alone. Vetiver adds an earthy, slightly rooty depth, and cedar tightens everything without much sweetness or resin.
The finished accord is a confident, no-frills woody spice — outdoorsy and straightforward, best worn in cool air where the wood has room to breathe.
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.