The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lavandin
- Clary Sage
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLavande is Molinard's lavender soliflore rendered oriental rather than fougère. Lavandin opens with a slightly herbal edge — bolder than true lavender, with camphor undertones that clary sage softens but doesn't erase. The transition to heart brings labdanum and patchouli forward, transforming the purple floral into something earthier and resinous, a shift that separates this from the standard lavender cologne.
By the dry-down, benzoin and tonka envelop the composition in a warm amber-vanilla skin, with coumarin threading through to add faint hay and sweetgrass character. The effect is not cologne but comfort: a warm, slow-burning lavender that sits close to the skin. Best worn on cold-weather evenings, where the resinous base has room to develop fully.
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.
