The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Vanilla60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readIn Woman Red leads with pear and black currant lifted by the bright bite of pink pepper — a cool, fruity opening that feels modern rather than sweet. The heart turns rosier and softer as heliotrope folds a faintly almond-powdery edge into the jasmine and rose.
Underneath, vanilla and amber lean into each other for a smooth, slightly sugared base, with cedar drawing a dry line through the warmth. The arc is straightforward — fruit-floral on top, plush amber underneath — and the result wears as a compact, easy cool-weather scent for casual evenings, with enough projection to register without crowding a room.
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.
