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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readApple opens crisp and lightly sweet, its watery green facet steering the fragrance toward a freshly-cut-grass freshness that persists into the heart. Violet leaf sharpens that green edge with a metallic coolness, letting jasmine and lily-of-the-valley bloom as clean, airy white petals rather than lush indoles. Cedar in the base keeps the structure dry and transparent, while amber adds a soft, skin-hugging warmth that prevents the composition from turning too sharp. The musk lands close to the body, extending the green-floral accord for several hours without turning creamy. Projection stays polite—an arm’s-length veil—making it office-safe yet noticeable in spring breezes.
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.
