Long Board
Marine air opens immediately, clean and slightly saline.
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.
- Amber60
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Marine
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readMarine air opens immediately, clean and slightly saline. Cardamom lifts through the aquatic quality with a fresh-spicy edge, keeping the opening from reading as synthetic or flat. Orange blossom adds a soft floral note just underneath, faintly creamy.
As it develops, vanilla and amber warm the composition noticeably. The marine quality doesn't disappear but recedes into the background, balanced against a growing sweetness from the amber-vanilla interplay.
Vetiver appears late, adding a dry, rooty texture that offsets the sweetness without going dark. The result is a coastal aquatic that carries genuine warmth — less beachy spray, more evening-by-the-water in cooler temperatures.
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.
