The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Violet60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Osmanthus
- Peony
- Peach
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through the osmanthus apricot fuzz to create a green-fruity tension that reads almost aquatic. The heart is a single peony note that swells the violet leaf's watery edge into a soft, pink-tinged floral while letting the osmanthus drift quietly underneath. As the peony subsides, peach skin joins patchouli in the base, turning the earlier fruits into velvety suede and dusting the skin with a clean white musk that keeps the patchouli light. Projection stays within arm's length for about six hours, making it office-safe yet interesting through the green-to-suede transition. Spring through early fall days when you want a subtle floral that never cloys.
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.
