The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens tart and jammy, a quick purple splash that lands on suede instead of skin. Jasmine, freesia and rose bloom together within minutes, their petals dusted with soft almond powder that blurs individual outlines into one plush floral cushion. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy lactones knitting the flowers to a supple, almost milky wood frame. Vanilla and patchouli fill the base: the vanilla stays fluffy rather than syrupy, while patchouli adds quiet, earthy thickness that keeps the confection from floating away. After two hours the currant recedes, leaving a clean rose-vanilla skin scent that radiates a polite half-arm radius for another four. Office-friendly, spring through early fall, it behaves like a washed-silk scarf: present but never loud.
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.
