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.
- Iris80
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readSage and bergamot open brisk and slightly bitter, the herb cutting the citrus oil with a cool, metallic edge. Iris sweeps in early, its cool, carrot-seed powder settling over a dark-roasted coffee note that reads more as toasted wood than espresso. The heart keeps the coffee dry, letting the iris mute its acidity while cedar adds splintered woodgrain texture. Frankincense and tonka slowly fuse, the resin’s lemon-peel smoke lifting the bean’s warm hay until both feel like singed parchment. On skin the iris-coffee accord lingers longest, hovering close with soft cedar embers and a faint incense haze. Projection stays polite, ideal for office or close-quarter fall days. Complexity is modest; the fragrance remains a calm, woody-aromatic skin scent for six to eight hours.
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.