The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody65
- Amber50
- Powdery50
- Earthy
By the editors · 2 min readGaiac 10 Tokyo opens with the dry rasp of guaiac wood—not polished or sweetened, but rendered almost papery, like incense ash swept across blonde timber. There's a faint medicinal edge that recalls old pharmacies: vetiver root, perhaps a whisper of something resinous and austere. The effect is spare, architectural, closer to Japanese minimalism than Western opulence.
As it settles, the composition softens only slightly. The wood gains a quiet warmth without losing its matte finish, and a thread of something vaguely musky or leathery emerges in the base. It remains linear, refusing drama or transformation. This is fragrance as object rather than story—deliberate, restrained, intellectual. Best suited to those who prefer their woods stripped of sweetness and their scents free of seduction.
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.
