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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, its tropical heft cushioned by bergamot’s polite citrus sparkle. The heart strips away decoration: sandalwood arrives dry and buttery, folding the ylang’s lactones into a pale wood accord that smells like warm, sun-bleached timber. Tonka bean and vanilla fill the base with a soft, hay-like sweetness that keeps the sandalwood from turning chalky, adding a faint tobacco nuance that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite—an arm-length halo for the first three hours—then collapses into a clean skin musk seasoned with blond wood and pale almond dust. Office-safe in temperate weather; best where subtlety is valued over statement.
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.