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.
- Fresh70
- Herbal60
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Patchouli
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readMint and grapefruit charge the opening with a chilled, effervescent snap that feels like carbonated citrus water. Lavender enters immediately, folding the cool herbs into a soft-grey aromatic blanket that mutes the fruit’s tart edge and sets a relaxed, barbershop tone. Clary sage keeps the heart green and slightly salty, so the fragrance never turns sweet; instead it stays breezy, as if sea air were pushing through sun-warmed leaves. Patchouli arrives late but light, lending a clean earthiness that anchors the herbs without adding weight or darkness, letting the scent taper to a crisp, woody skin finish. Projection stays within handshake distance for about five hours, making it an easy daytime option for warm weather offices or post-gym casual wear.
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.
