The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lime
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readMint and basil spearhead the opening, releasing a cool, peppery green snap that slices through the citrus quartet of lime, lemon, bergamot and neroli. Within minutes the aromatic cloud sweetens as ylang-ylang and magnolia add buttery floral weight, while a pinch of black pepper keeps the accord crisp rather than cloying. The heart’s sage folds the greens into a softly camphorous layer that lingers until the tonka–vanilla tandem warms the base, turning the earlier chill into a creamy, faintly almond glow dusted with clean musk. Projection stays polite, radiating an arm’s-length herbal freshness for about six hours before collapsing into a blond-wood skin scent. Office-friendly across spring and summer, it performs best in humid climates where the citrus top re-energizes with each pulse of heat.
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.
