Number One
Galbanum slashes the opening with bitter sap and crushed leaf matter that smells almost chalky.
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.
- Mossy70
- Aromatic50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes the opening with bitter sap and crushed leaf matter that smells almost chalky. The heart is a white-floral brawl: tuberose thrusts its creamy, rubbery petals forward while jasmine and ylang-ylang add oily banana sweetness; orange blossom keeps the bouquet from turning buttery and rose offers a faint powder that blunts the green blade. Oakmoss creeps up early, coupling with sandalwood to give the florals a cool, loamy forest floor; amber arrives late, warming the moss rather than sweetening it. Wear time shows slow fade from dewy jungle to dry bark, projection stays at arm’s length for hours.
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.
