The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with its custard-sweet, banana-like creaminess, while bergamot adds only a brief citrus sparkle that is quickly absorbed into the tropical pollen. Narcissus arrives as a cool, almost leathery yellow floral, sharpening the ylang-ylang’s fat sweetness and steering the scent away from suntan-oil cliché toward something duskier and more meadow-wild. Oakmoss settles underneath in a dry, salt-tinged mat that mutes projection and pulls the flowers into a muted, vintage-chypre hush rather than a loud white-floral shout. The wear is linear after the first twenty minutes: a soft, diffusive yellow-green aura that stays close to skin and fabrics for several hours, never turning sweet or heavy. It feels like walking through late-spring grass wearing yesterday’s pollen on your sleeve—quiet, slightly earthy, sun-warmed but never loud.
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.
