The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cinnamon90
- Rum90
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Rum
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Sandalwood
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and rum create an immediate boozy-spice flash that feels like dark gold liquid hitting warm skin. The heart doubles down on the same spice by folding in ginger, so the cinnamon never cools; instead it turns drier, almost powdered, while the ginger adds a peppery lift that keeps the accord from collapsing into syrup. Once the incense and frankincense rise, the composition pivots: the resins pull the lingering rum into a smoky, balsamic trail and sandalwood smooths the edges, letting patchouli give an earthy, bittersweet backbone that lasts for hours. Musk stays low, acting as a quiet anchor rather than a separate player, so the final impression is a resin-rich ember with a faint bakery sweetness still clinging to the cuffs.
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.
