Metal
Metal arrives the way late-1970s florals do — dense, wet, undisguised.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readMetal arrives the way late-1970s florals do — dense, wet, undisguised. Basil and lemon flick across the top for a moment before the heart unfurls: tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley and rose stacked together with iris cooling the seam. The bouquet is loud but architecturally tight, more boardroom than garden.
The drydown trades the powder for green chypre bones — vetiver, oakmoss, sandalwood — with amber and musk smoothing the join. It projects far and lasts through a workday.
A period piece, designed for shoulder pads and tinted aviators. Reads dated now, but worn with intent it still has presence; it asks to be dressed up rather than down.
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.
