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.
- Green65
- Floral55
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Mandarin Orange
- Jasmine Sambac
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Fig
By the editors · 2 min readFigues & Agrumes opens with black currant's tart-jammy darkness and a bright mandarin citrus — a brief, sharp contrast before the composition reveals its true subject.
Fig runs through both the heart and base, giving the fragrance a continuous milky-green thread. In the heart it registers as fresh and slightly watery; jasmine sambac adds tropical indulgence while orange blossom contributes warm honeyed softness. The double-jasmine construction — sambac alongside the standard note — creates unusual depth in what could otherwise be a straightforward fig fragrance.
Tonka bean and cedar anchor the dry-down with dry warmth; musk provides transparency. The fig stays present through the finish without cloying. A polished, summery fragrance that reads as more sophisticated than its mainstream positioning suggests — the jasmine sambac heart is the detail that elevates it.
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.
