Island
With no top or heart phase, the composition unfolds entirely in the base register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Sandalwood
- Birch
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top or heart phase, the composition unfolds entirely in the base register. Apple opens as a cool, slightly tart fruit accent, while jasmine adds a bright floral pulse that reads crystalline rather than indolic.
The development is essentially the base layer breathing out from itself. Sandalwood provides a creamy woody backbone, while birch contributes a smoky, leather-tarry edge that pulls the composition surprisingly dark for a beach name.
The drydown extends the same chord — apple-jasmine softening over smoky birch wood — without further evolution. Overall character is a smoky woody-floral with a fresh fruit highlight, textural rather than narrative, sitting between casual and contemplative wear.
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.
