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The opening is surprisingly direct—lavender without the herbal sharpness, more like folded linen left in a wooden drawer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Woody70
- Iris70
- Sweet60
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is surprisingly direct—lavender without the herbal sharpness, more like folded linen left in a wooden drawer. It doesn't linger alone for long. Within minutes, a crowded heart emerges: jasmine and ylang-ylang jostle against cedar and patchouli, while iris adds a cool, powdery restraint. The florals never quite bloom into fullness; they're hemmed in by wood and earth, creating a soft tension between lightness and weight.
As it settles, the base asserts itself with warmth—tonka and benzoin bring sweetness, sandalwood adds creaminess, and a whisper of leather keeps it from turning too cozy. The styrax gives a faint resinous darkness at the edges. The overall effect is enveloping but oddly introspective, like walking through a garden at dusk when the air holds both flowers and damp soil.
This suits someone drawn to complexity that doesn't announce itself, a fragrance that asks for attention rather than demanding it.
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.
