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.
- Green70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Labdanum
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes through the opening with a bitter, resinous snap, pinning crushed pine needles to sap-stained bark. Labdanum slides in quickly, its warm, leathery amber folding around the green edge, muting the bite while adding a softly animalic purr. In the base, vetiver and cedar keep the structure dry and vertical, letting salty ambergris and clean musk settle into a calm, low-tide skin scent that smells like drift sun-bleached driftwood. The whole profile stays spare: aromatic resin, cool earth, then quiet mineral skin. Projection hugs inside a forearm’s radius for four quiet hours, perfect for a cool spring hike or an air-conditioned office where you want presence without announcement.
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.