The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus60
- Woody55
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Bamboo
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBiografia Desperte opens with a single citrus stroke — lemon, sharp and unsweetened, the kind of opening that reads aim-the-day rather than perfume-as-mood.
The heart is greener than the pyramid suggests at first glance: peach softens into lily of the valley, but bamboo cuts a crisp stem through the sweetness. It's a clean, lightly aquatic floral, more Tuesday morning than special occasion.
The base is deliberately restrained — amber and cedar, no musk or vanilla pulling it warm. The fragrance stays close to skin, fades early afternoon, and rewards the same wearer who'd reapply at noon. A daytime utility scent.
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.