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.
- Patchouli80
- Leather60
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Pepper
- Patchouli
- Incense
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens alone — creamy, tropical, and slightly heady. It's a provocative soloist, promising richness rather than citrus freshness, and it prepares the nose for what comes next.
Black pepper and patchouli take over with authoritative earthiness. The pepper brings a sharp, dry heat; the patchouli provides its characteristic dark-earth depth. Together they form a dense, spiced-earth heart that is unambiguous in its intentions — this is not a fragrance that hedges.
Incense, leather, and honey complete the composition's portrait. The honey provides beeswax warmth rather than fruity sweetness; the leather is dry rather than clean; the incense adds smoke and gravity. A serious, assertive patchouli-leather that rewards wearers comfortable with density — and leaves a trail that hours can't erode.
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.
