The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Marine55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Ambergris
- Leather
- Marine
- Amber
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readExplorer Ultra Blue opens with a brisk marine breeze undercut by the crackle of pink pepper—cool and faintly spicy, like salt spray hitting warm skin. The bergamot adds citrus lift, but it's that ozonic current that sets the tone, bright and airy without veering into pure aquatic territory.
As it settles, a soft ambergris warmth begins to surface, pulling the composition away from the beach and toward something more intimate. The maritime freshness doesn't vanish entirely but becomes a backdrop for this quiet, skin-close glow. By the drydown, a restrained leather emerges—supple rather than heavy, adding just enough structure to anchor the lighter elements.
The overall effect is clean and approachable, masculine without being aggressive. It's built for movement and daylight, the kind of scent that works equally well in an office or on a long walk along the coast. Uncomplicated in the best sense.
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.
