The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Patchouli95
- Vanilla85
- Caramel75
- Tonka55
- Honey40
By the editors · 2 min readAngel is the perfume that invented the gourmand category. Thierry Mugler and Yves de Chiris launched it in 1992 as a revolt against the ozonic-fresh 1990s — a dense, patchouli-forward composition threaded with chocolate, caramel, and Madagascar vanilla that smells, variously, like burnt sugar, old books, and cotton candy pressed into a dark forest floor.
Love-it-or-hate-it is the honest consensus. Its longevity is monumental — a wrist sprayed at nine still smells like Angel at five — and its sillage fills rooms. The modern clean-fragrance movement was in many ways a decade-long reaction against this particular scent.
Best worn in cold weather, past sundown, when you want to be noticed from across a parking lot.
