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.
- Vanilla70
- Tuberose65
- Cinnamon55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Tuberose
- Orange Blossom
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Alien's solar jasmine meets a wave of heat. Ginger and cinnamon arrive first, not quite fiery but persistent enough to warm the skin and announce movement. This isn't shy tuberose—it carries the flower's creamy weight forward without the usual green backdrop, letting orange blossom fill in where freshness might otherwise live.
As it settles, vanilla does what vanilla does in the Alien lineage: it thickens everything into something between skin and sculpture. The white florals remain present but feel wrapped, almost muffled by sweetness and a faint amber glow. The spice from the opening lingers as a low hum rather than a sharp edge.
This is Alien for someone who wants the bones of the original—that distinctive, almost extraterrestrial floral density—but prefers warmth to coolness, spice to greenness. It holds close and radiates outward in equal measure.
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.
