The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Musky70
- Powdery55
- Violet50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Peach Blossom
- Lemon
- Royal White Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readTenderly Promise opens on a small bright snap — pink pepper and lemon over peach blossom — that reads more like a fresh face cream than a perfume top. Within minutes the citrus burns off and a soft, rounded white-floral heart takes over: lily of the valley and peony with a denser royal lily anchoring the middle.
The drydown is where it settles into its real shape, which is mostly powdery skin musk. Cashmere musks and orris root quiet the florals into something close-wearing and clean, with a faint suggestion of sandalwood underneath rather than a real wood note.
It fits the daylight side of the wardrobe — office wear, weekday lunches, the kind of fragrance you reapply without thinking about it. Closer than projecting, polite rather than memorable.
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.
