Glow
Ambergris opens first, delivering a salty, skin-like marine lift that feels cool rather than oceanic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Musky70
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Cedar
- Iris
- Musk
- Jasmine
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris opens first, delivering a salty, skin-like marine lift that feels cool rather than oceanic. Cedar follows within minutes, adding dry wood shavings that thin the ambergris and keep it from feeling heavy. Iris arrives almost simultaneously, dusting the cedar with a cool, makeup-powder sheen that turns the accord slightly cosmetic. Jasmine slips in quietly, a pale white floral that softens the iris-powder edge without announcing itself as flowers. The advertised grapefruit base never materialises as citrus; instead it reads as a faint bitter pith that lengthen the musk already present in the top, so the fragrance ends on clean, grey musk over soft cedar. Projection stays close, a skin-radius scent ideal for office days when you want cleanliness without soap or citrus.
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.




