The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Floral65
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens with a honeyed orange-flower brightness — softer than a citrus opening, immediately warm and floral.
The heart pivots into white-floral territory with jasmine's indolic richness and orange blossom's deeper sweetness layered together. The two florals operate as variations on a theme rather than contrasts, producing a creamy, sun-warmed petal effect that reads luxurious without indolic heaviness. The oil format keeps everything close to skin.
Sandalwood, amber, vanilla, and musk close the drydown. Sandalwood's spine, amber's warm cushion, and vanilla's soft sugar resolve the florals into a powdery glow. The finish reads as a gentle floral-amber that hovers very close to the wearer — intimate and polished.
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.
