The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Caramel50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readOh! Sweet Dulce de Leche opens with peach and black currant — a tart-sweet fruit combination that immediately signals dessert territory. The heart softens the opening with jasmine and lily of the valley, lending a floral bridge that keeps the composition from becoming purely edible. In the base, tonka bean, sandalwood, and caramel complete the promise of the name: warm, milky, with a slightly nutty sweetness.
This is an unapologetically gourmand floral, designed for those who want their perfume to smell like something they'd eat. The floral middle prevents it from reading as pure food-scent, and the sandalwood adds enough body to anchor the sweetness.
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.