Sonnet XVII
Osmanthus carries the composition, its apricot-leather nuance blooming straight against a cool oakmoss bed.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Mossy90
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Osmanthus
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOsmanthus carries the composition, its apricot-leather nuance blooming straight against a cool oakmoss bed. The flower’s soft tannic edge keeps the moss from turning bitter, while ambergris weaves briny, skin-warmed light through the cracks. Over hours the osmanthus folds into the musk, creating a suede-lactonic haze that hovers just above pores. Projection stays polite, a scented whisper perfect for close conversation or misty spring walks when you want elegance without announcement.
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.
