Nitroglyzerin
Cardamom crackles against lemon and grapefruit, their sharp zest immediately sharpened by the spice's peppery bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles against lemon and grapefruit, their sharp zest immediately sharpened by the spice's peppery bite. Magnolia arrives early, its creamy lemon edge fusing with the citrus to create a bright petal-wax accord that softens the opening snap. Rose follows, adding a faintly sour green facet that keeps the heart from turning sugary while vetiver begins to push up an earthy rootiness. The dry-down trades brightness for shade: moss blankets the woods with a cool forest-floor humus, musk sheens the skin like clean sweat, and vetiver lingers as a dry grass smoke that holds the accord together. Projection stays within conversational distance for six hours, making it office-safe yet interesting enough for after-work bars. Spring through early fall days, especially when humidity lets the moss expand, feel like its natural habitat.
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.
