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.
- Amber90
- Woody60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readAmber as the whole proposition. Bergamot lifts the opening for a beat — bright, slightly bitter — and then the amber takes hold and stays.
It's the warm balsamic kind: rounded, lightly powdered, with the salty animal facet of ambergris drawn into a quiet line behind it. Patchouli darkens the heart. The base layers tonka, sandalwood, vetiver, and Virginia cedar into a wood-and-resin floor that holds the amber up rather than crowding it.
The wear is steady and slow. Long, close, and warm-skinned. A scent for cold weather and indoor hours, not for outdoor projection.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
