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.
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readmake B. Gold opens on raspberry and bergamot with a violet undertone — a tart-sweet fruity top tinted purple by the violet leaf, more candy-shop than orchard. The first minutes feel deliberately playful.
The heart is unexpectedly composed. Magnolia and jasmine handle the white-floral lead, while peony adds soft pink lift and iris brings a powdered, slightly grey-cool elegance. It's a fuller middle than the simple base would suggest — four florals doing genuinely different work, with the iris pulling the sweetness toward something more refined.
The base is intentionally restrained. Cedar provides dry structure; musk smooths everything down. The arc compresses fast — fruity sparkle to floral middle to clean wood-musk — and what you're left with is a quiet, slightly powdered feminine that wears close to the skin and reads polished rather than loud.
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.
