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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Pear
- Lavender
- Ambroxan
- Pear
- Lavender
- Lime
By the editors · 2 min readLime opens bright and sharply acidic, slicing through the air with a green-tinged citrus snap that immediately signals fresh cologne territory. The heart introduces pear and lavender: the pear adds a watery, slightly sweet fruitiness that softens the lime's edge, while lavender injects a clean aromatic facet that keeps the accord airy rather than sugary. Ambroxan in the base extends the freshness into a mineral-wood dry-down, lending a subtle ambery glow that clings close to skin without turning creamy. Over wear the lime recedes first, leaving lavender to dominate the mid-phase before ambroxan takes over as a muted, musky wood. Projection stays within arm's length; the composition feels designed for post-gym gym sport refreshes or casual summer office 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.