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.
- Iris70
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Mimosa
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readMimosa and rose open together in a soft, honeyed-floral pairing — mimosa's fluffy yellow warmth and rose's more defined petal character complement each other without fighting. The opening is approachable and familiar, leaning toward a classic feminine floral style.
Jasmine and sandalwood in the heart add depth and creaminess, and as iris appears in the base, the fragrance takes on a cooler, more powdery dimension. Amber provides a gentle resinous warmth that keeps the iris from reading too cold or stark. Musk wraps the dry-down in a clean, close finish. The overall balance is between warm and cool florals, with the iris-amber axis defining the base character and preventing it from becoming purely generic.
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.
