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.
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readA citrus cologne built for warmth rather than transparency. Orange, lemon, bergamot and cardamom open all at once, with the cardamom shifting the citrus from sparkling toward something more spiced and digestive — closer to a glass of bitter aperitivo than a glass of water.
The heart is brief, cinnamon over freesia, and serves as a hinge between the bright top and the substantial base. That base is what makes the perfume Lalique-coded: sandalwood and guaiac wood for warmth, benzoin for resin, musk for hold.
Wears year-round, leans toward warm weather but tolerates cool. Less of a splash than a starting point that drifts down toward woody-balsamic comfort over the next several hours.
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.
