Swoon
Orange at the top gives a brief, clean citrus introduction before yielding to the more substantial base: oakmoss, oud, patchouli, and musk.
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.
- Oud70
- Mossy60
- Earthy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Tomato Leaf
- Peony
- Narcissus
- Oakmoss
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readOrange at the top gives a brief, clean citrus introduction before yielding to the more substantial base: oakmoss, oud, patchouli, and musk. This is a notably dark and earthy base for a composition that opens with something as bright as orange — the contrast is part of the character.
Oakmoss provides earthy, slightly mossy depth; oud contributes a dense, resinous, occasionally animalic quality; patchouli adds a rich, earthy-sweet grounding note. Musk weaves through everything, adding smoothness.
The overall effect is a dark, earthy oriental with citrus memory. The orange opening sets up an expectation the base dramatically subverts, which may be the point. It suits evening wear, cooler weather, and those who gravitate toward deep, grounded compositions.
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.
