The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Mossy75
- Vanilla70
- Amber70
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Amber
- Blackberry
- Apricot
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min read# Ultraviolet by Paco Rabanne
Ultraviolet opens with a soft apricot accord that feels both fruity and skin-like, immediately warmer than you'd expect from a fragrance named after the coldest part of the spectrum. The fruit never turns syrupy—it simply primes the skin for what follows. As it settles, violet and jasmine emerge with a slightly powdered quality, rose adding just enough depth to keep the florals from floating away entirely.
The base is where the fragrance finds its true character: amber and vanilla create a milky, almost edible warmth, while cedar and patchouli anchor everything with a whisper of woody restraint. The overall effect is approachable and gently synthetic in the way late-nineties fragrances often were, unapologetically smooth and rounded at the edges. Ultraviolet suits someone who wants presence without aggression, sweetness without excess.
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.
