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
- Aromatic50
- Floral50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Lily of the Valley
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a cool, metallic edge that immediately frames the scent as sporty sport rather than sunny citrus. Violet leaf surges forward within minutes, adding a damp, cut-grass bitterness that swallows most of the bergamot and pulls lavender into a transparent green corridor; lily of the valley stays whisper-quiet, just a watery flutter that keeps the heart airy. As the greens relax, benzoin warms the base, letting vanilla curl softly around clean white musk so the dry-down feels like pale woods rinsed with sweet resin. Projection stays polite, a skin-trace halo perfect for gym or campus, and the whole cycle collapses to a cotton-soft musk inside four hours. Green Man is a budget runner that smells like chilled leaves on a rubber track: brisk, synthetic, instantly forgettable yet weirdly easy to reach for.
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.
