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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tropical50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Coffee
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp grapefruit twist meets dark roasted coffee in the opening, the citrus cutting against bitter aromatic depth before fading. The pairing reads more bittersweet than fresh, with the coffee dominating within minutes.
The drydown is where the perfume lives. Benzoin and vanilla pour a thick caramelised sweetness around the coffee, while patchouli adds an earthy, almost cocoa-adjacent shadow. Musk smooths the seam between the rich base notes.
Overall this is a gourmand-leaning warm scent built on coffee and resinous sweetness, with a soft woody-earthy floor. Cool weather and close quarters suit it; in heat the sweetness can feel heavy.
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.




