The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Labdanum
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readAn interesting four-way opening: mint and labdanum appear at the top alongside grapefruit and bergamot, which is an unusual combination. The mint and citrus create a clean, cold-green freshness; labdanum's resinous, slightly sweet quality at the top suggests an immediate bridge to the warmer base rather than a clean citrus-only introduction.
Guaiac wood, vanilla, and patchouli form the base — a dry, smoky wood (guaiac) alongside vanilla's warmth and patchouli's earthiness. The mint-labdanum-citrus opening transitioning into guaiac-vanilla is a journey from cool freshness to smoky warmth.
The composition reads as a fresh-woody fragrance with some complexity — a smart structure where the labdanum anchors the top to the base early. Suited to cooler weather.
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.
