The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and lemon open with a sharp herbal-citrus pairing typical of 80s aromatic compositions, the basil giving the lemon a green dryness rather than a fizz. The opening is brisk and confident.
Sandalwood, jasmine, and cedar build the heart into a creamy floral-woody middle. The jasmine adds a quiet indolic edge while the sandalwood softens the cedar's pencil-shaving sharpness. The transition holds the composition between fresh and warm.
Oakmoss, leather, vetiver, patchouli, and musk close the arc with a classic chypre-leather base. The moss is damp and earthy, the leather assertive, and together they produce the dry, animalic dry-down expected of the genre. Strong projection and a long, slightly grimy finish that reads unmistakably vintage masculine.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
