The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cypriol
- Grapefruit
- Oud
- Amber
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and cypriol open together — the citrus lifts the earthy, smoky quality of cypriol rather than softening it, giving the opening a sharp, resinous edge. It projects confidently from the start.
Oud and saffron dominate the heart, a combination that reads dense and slightly metallic. Amber supports without sweetening. The oakmoss in the base adds a cool, earthy anchor, while sandalwood and guaiac wood introduce a drier woody smoke that extends the oud's character into the dry-down.
Overall this sits in familiar oud-amber territory but the cypriol-grapefruit opening and mossy base give it a slightly more textured, outdoorsy character than a straightforward resinous oud. Best suited to cool or cold weather.
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.
