The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Green70
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Fig
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readFig dominates from the first spray, its milky-green sap turning slightly sour as the skin warms, pulling the composition toward a salty, almost cheese-rind edge. Vetiver rises quickly, sharpening the fig leaf with dry, grassy smoke that keeps the fruit from going jammy. Cedar arrives next, splitting the difference: its pencil-shaving wood adds clean structure while letting the opoponax slowly bloom into a bittersweet, incense-resin base that smells faintly of myrrh and sun-baked driftwood. The wear is linear after twenty minutes: the fig loses wateriness but keeps a tannic bite, while the resins grow darker and skin-close, projecting a soft, salty wood aura rather than overt sweetness. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an offbeat summer work scent for days when you want green without textbook citrus.
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.