Bahiana
Orange and lemon split the opening — bright, sun-bleached, with lime arriving fast in the wake of the citrus to add a sharper, cocktail-tinged green edge.
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.
- Tropical55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Rosewood
- Guaiac Wood
- Rose
- Coconut
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and lemon split the opening — bright, sun-bleached, with lime arriving fast in the wake of the citrus to add a sharper, cocktail-tinged green edge. The first impression is vacation-postcard, almost effervescent.
Rosewood and guaiac wood form the middle, smoky-sweet and slightly creamy, with rose adding a thin floral ribbon. The wood here is the warm kind, almost toasted, leaning the composition toward tropical drink rather than carpentry.
Coconut, amber, and musk seal the drydown into a soft, sun-warmed haze — milky-sweet without being heavy, the citrus still flickering at the edges. It reads beach-cocktail, mostly tropical-coconut with a quiet woody backbone.
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.
