The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Gardenia
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readZenne opens with a bright collision of tart black currant and bitter grapefruit, both sharp enough to feel almost medicinal before they soften. Within minutes, the gardenia emerges—not the creamy white-flower bomb you might expect, but something leaner, carved through by dry sandalwood that keeps the petals from sprawling.
The base settles into a skin-close shimmer of ambergris and musk, with vanilla hovering just at the edge of perception rather than dominating. It's restrained in a way that feels deliberate, even austere for a composition built around typically lush materials.
This is gardenia for someone who finds most white florals too sweet or too loud. Zenne stays close, wears politely, and favors understatement over declaration. It suits controlled environments—offices, galleries, careful first impressions—and anyone who wants floral fragrance without the usual fanfare.
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.
