The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy90
- Woody70
- Patchouli70
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readHacivat opens with a sharp burst of pineapple and grapefruit that feels more herbal than sweet, braced by bergamot and tempered by an immediate undercurrent of oakmoss. The freshness never turns tropical or juicy; instead, it quickly tilts into something drier and more austere, as cedar and patchouli emerge to anchor the composition. The jasmine hovers quietly in the background, softening the woods without pulling focus.
What remains is a modern reworking of classic chypre structure—bright citrus over mossy earth—with enough pineapple to mark it as contemporary. The oakmoss gives it weight and a faintly bitter, forest-floor quality that keeps it from feeling casual. It's formal without being stiff, and wears closer to the skin than its bold opening suggests.
Hacivat suits someone who wants the crispness of a citrus fragrance but prefers something with more complexity and staying power. It's polished, slightly aloof, and entirely uninterested in being cheerful.
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.
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