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.
- Rose85
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Mandarin
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA spare, focused rose. Black currant opens it with a tart, leafy bite — the sort of green-fruit accent that gives rose air without sweetening it.
The heart is the rose itself, presented unadorned. Mandarin from the broader composition lifts it slightly, but the floral is meant to be read straight: petals, stem, a faint pepperiness that comes naturally from rose oil.
The drydown is sandalwood and patchouli — creamy, woody, earth-warmed. The whole thing stays close and meditative, more about the rose than projecting it. Suited to cooler weather, casual or office wear, when something quiet but clearly stated is the point.
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.
