The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Iris60
- Powdery55
- Fresh50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readBiografia Inspire opens on a lightly spiced pear — nutmeg and pink pepper lending edges to what would otherwise be a clean fruit note. Bergamot ties the citrus and spice together in a way that reads contemporary rather than classical. The transition into the heart is seamless: magnolia, peony, iris, violet, and lily of the valley form a soft, powdery floral accord dominated by iris's characteristic cool, earthy quality.
The base is where the fragrance commits to its identity. Amberwood, sandalwood, cashmeran, and patchouli build a warm, slightly smoky foundation, with cedar providing structure. The musk is clean. The combined effect is a polished office-appropriate feminine with enough depth to carry into casual evenings: modern floral on the outside, warm oriental underneath.
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.
