The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Lychee
- Rose
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and lychee create a juicy, slightly tart fruit layer that sits atop a plush rose core, giving the opening a candied brightness. The heart folds in almond, adding a marzipan creaminess that softens the rose and links it to the ylang-ylang’s banana-like sweetness, turning the bouquet plush rather than sharp. Oud arrives quietly in the base, more a dry, medicinal wood than smoky barnyard, while vetiver injects a cool, grassy rootiness that keeps the confection from cloying. Over hours the fruit sheen recedes, leaving an almond-rose fondant lightly dusted with clean oud and earthy vetiver. Projection stays within arm’s length; best for cool spring evenings or casual fall days when you want edible florals without full gourmand heft.
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.
