The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Pink Pepper
- Pear
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens with a creamy lemon-peach brightness that pink pepper lifts into effervescent sparkle. The heart swells with pear’s aqueous sweetness, its juiciness tethered by freesia’s cool green stem and a soft rose that adds powdery blush rather than full bloom. As the fruit subsides, sandalwood’s dry milkwood warmth meets a clean amber glow, turning the accord from orchard to skin-level haze. Projection stays within handshake radius for roughly five hours, making it office-safe yet still perceptible during after-work drinks. Spring and early summer days, jeans and a light blouse, are its natural habitat.
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.
