The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Vanilla65
- Amber55
- Powdery55
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Habanita formula in its older, more unstable shape. The opening is fruit-floral — raspberry and peach with orange blossom and bergamot — and the fruits read jammy rather than fresh, more compote than orchard.
The heart is a heavy white-floral-and-iris bouquet: jasmine, ylang-ylang, heliotrope, iris, and rose, layered until the individual flowers blur into a single powdered cloud. The base is short but loud — benzoin, vanilla, and musk, the benzoin pulling everything toward a warm balsamic resin.
A pre-war composition that wears as such. Cool weather, evening, anyone who wants a fragrance with the texture of velvet rather than air.
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.
