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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rosemary
- Guaiac Wood
- Rose
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot slice open with a metallic citrus edge that feels chilled rather than sweet. Heart layers rosemary’s camphor bite against anise’s black-licorice snap while guaiac wood smolders quietly underneath, keeping the accord dry and smoky. Rose arrives only as a thin floral wire, tightening the aromatics instead of softening them. As the base settles, cedar’s pencil-shaving dust dominates, tonka adds a faint almond warmth, and ambergris supplies a clean salt-skin aura that lets the earlier herbal smoke linger. Projection stays arm’s-length for six hours, then collapses to a musky cedar skin-glow that reads crisp and office-safe through cool spring mornings or breezy seaside nights.
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.
