Présence d'une femme
With no top notes specified, the composition begins directly in its creamy heart, sandalwood and rosewood weaving together into a warm, slightly milky woody base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Woody70
- Patchouli70
- Vanilla50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Rosewood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top notes specified, the composition begins directly in its creamy heart, sandalwood and rosewood weaving together into a warm, slightly milky woody base. There's no opening flash, only smoothness from the first moment.
Vanilla emerges almost immediately, kept soft and balsamic rather than dessert-sweet, complementing the woods without overpowering them. Patchouli adds an earthy, slightly bitter undertow that keeps the composition from feeling too plush or feminine.
The overall character is intimate, powdery, and slightly old-fashioned in its patchouli-vanilla heart, evoking a wood-paneled dressing room and worn cashmere. Sillage stays close, longevity is moderate, and the whole feels designed for evenings, layering, or cool-weather wear when something quietly enveloping is preferred.
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.