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.
- Rose85
- Vanilla55
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Violet
- Almond
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA rose soliflore tilted toward the powdery side of the genre. The opening is rose itself — not a citrus or green to introduce it, just the flower stated plainly.
Violet sits in the heart and immediately changes the character: rose plus violet equals something cosmetic, lipstick-adjacent, faintly retro. The base of almond, vanilla, and musk pulls this further into powder territory, the almond doing the heavy lifting on the marzipan side.
Wears like a soft-edged rose makeup compact rather than a fresh bouquet. Cooler weather, evening, anyone who wants rose to read as feminine-vintage instead of garden-fresh.
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.
