The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Musky60
- Lactonic50
- Iris50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Sour Cherry
- Raspberry Leaf
- Iris
- Angelica
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSo Sweet keeps its name's promise, but with brakes on. Sour cherry and raspberry leaf open over mandarin — fruity, but tart and a little green, more a fruit drupe than a candy. The opening reads as a softer, brighter sister to the original 1997's licorice-cherry blueprint.
Iris and rose pull the heart toward powder. Angelica adds a dry, herby green that keeps the sugar from collapsing into pure dessert. The transition is the part that does the work — the fruit cools and turns musky-floral fast.
Cashmeran and amberwood underneath give it that woody-musky drydown the late-2010s gourmands all share, fluffy rather than warm. Long-wearing in skin mode. A good autumn-into-winter daily for someone who finds the original Lempicka too operatic.
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.
