The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Damask Rose
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readDamask rose dominates from the first breath, its petals rendered in saturated crimson against a ylang-ylang custard sheen that softens the bloom’s natural thorny edge. Jasmine enters within minutes, adding a narcotic white floral lift that turns the composition from pure rose toward a plush, slightly indolic bouquet, while a quieter musk thread weaves through to keep the petals airborne rather than syrupy. As the ylang recedes, a second, drier rose absolute emerges in the base, its leathered facets framed by the same clean musk so the scent stays luminous instead of pot-pourri sweet. Skin-close wear projects no farther than a silk scarf, yet the rose accord persists for eight hours, slowly trading bloom for powdered velvet. Cool spring mornings and polite office days favor its restrained radiance; heat would flatten the jasmine’s lift.
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.
