The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Amber70
- Vanilla60
- Woody55
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Galbanum
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readA reissue of the original Habanita formula tuned for late-eighties sensibility. Galbanum and petitgrain open with a green, slightly bitter snap that pulls the wearer immediately toward something old-world and herbal rather than sweet.
The heart settles into a creamy-bitter mid: ylang-ylang and heliotrope tempered by nutmeg and vetiver, so the floralcy reads dusty rather than fresh. The base is the part that lingers — sandalwood, amber, vanilla, oakmoss, patchouli, and musk knit into a smoky powder that holds on cloth for days.
It wears like a vintage scarf pulled out of a cedar drawer. Cool weather, long evenings, anyone who wants their fragrance to feel inherited.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
