Instincts
Instincts opens with mint and freesia — cool, green, almost clinical — before expanding into a dense floral heart that pushes in a different direction.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Freesia
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readInstincts opens with mint and freesia — cool, green, almost clinical — before expanding into a dense floral heart that pushes in a different direction. Neroli contributes its slightly bitter citrus-floral quality, jasmine and Damask rose provide warmth, and heliotrope reads as the bridge element: powdery, almond-touched, softening the rose's sharpness. The base is where the composition stakes its most interesting claim: oakmoss, amber, and musk land with the structural weight of a classic chypre. The effect is a modern fragrance with its feet planted in mid-century tradition. The contrast between the crisp opening and the mossy drydown rewards patience.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
