Creation
A quiet, resinous opening settles almost immediately into warm vanilla, unhurried and unadorned.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA quiet, resinous opening settles almost immediately into warm vanilla, unhurried and unadorned. There are no bright top notes to announce it — it simply arrives as something already close to skin temperature.
As it develops, benzoin adds a soft, honey-edged depth while patchouli provides an earthy counterweight that keeps the vanilla from reading as pure sweetness. The musk threads underneath, pulling everything inward rather than projecting outward.
The result is a compact, skin-hugging composition. It stays close, radiating gentle warmth without demanding attention. Best suited to cooler weather when that low, balsamic hum feels most appropriate.
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.
