The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Star Anise
- Plum
- Orange Blossom
- Moss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readHawas Ice is a cold-weather fresh-aromatic built around an icy apple opening — clean, sharp, and slightly sweet. Star anise adds a licorice twist before the fragrance warms into a soft plum and orange blossom heart. Mint and cardamom run as throughlines reinforcing the icy-spiced premise. The base is amber-warmed crystalline moss — a signature move for aquatic-adjacent aromatics. This flanker sits comfortably in the established icy-fresh fougère genre without subverting it; the appeal is in the execution of an instantly recognizable type rather than originality.
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.
