Sensual
Lemon and bergamot flash bright, almost effervescent, against a cool cedar spine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash bright, almost effervescent, against a cool cedar spine. Lily of the valley and freesia lift the heart with airy green sweetness, while jasmine and rose add faint pollen dust that keeps the bouquet from turning soapy. Oakmoss creeps in early, threading a damp, shady undertone through the citrus petals and foreshadowing the dry-down. Musk and amber arrive late, softening cedar into a skin-close hum of clean wood and warm fuzz. Projection stays polite, a handshake radius that persists four-to-five hours before folding into laundered-cotton musk. Spring through early fall office days, or weekend brunch when you want freshness without shouting.
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.
