The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readBiografia Caminhos opens with an unusual top for a floral: pear and bergamot provide fruitiness, but black pepper and cardamom give it an aromatic sharpness that cuts through any sweetness. Lily of the valley in the top adds a dewy, green note bridging toward the heart. There, violet leaf — crisp, cucumbery, and cool — pairs with magnolia, keeping the floral phase spare and angular rather than lush. The base resolves into vetiver, cashmeran, and patchouli: an earthy, resinous trio that reads more green-woody than warm. Understated and somewhat austere, Caminhos is a unisex-leaning feminine with a distinct preference for cool, structured wearability over sweetness or projection.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
