The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose50
- Patchouli40
- Vanilla20
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Mimosa
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readHabanita L'Esprit opens with a brief sparkle of lemon and nutmeg before settling into a softer, lighter interpretation of its famously potent ancestor. The original Habanita's leather and oak moss have been stripped away, leaving a rounder florality centered on jasmine and heliotrope, with mimosa lending a fine-grained powderiness. The effect is gentler, more transparent, but still recognizably related to the 1921 original.
The base keeps a quiet touch of patchouli and benzoin, enough to anchor the composition without the heavy resins that defined the classic. Vetiver adds a hint of dryness. This is Habanita reimagined for those who found the original too forceful—retaining the powder and florals while removing the darkness. It reads as polite rather than provocative, a perfume that whispers where its predecessor roared.
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.