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.
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Animalic50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Osmanthus
- Tuberose
- Magnolia
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readFire & Ice opens with a crisp floral brightness—orange blossom and osmanthus lending an apricot-tinged sweetness that feels surprisingly fresh for a fragrance built around heavier white flowers. The tuberose emerges quickly but stays restrained, more powdered than indolic, flanked by magnolia's lemony softness and narcissus adding a narcotic green edge that prevents the composition from turning too polite.
As it settles, incense introduces a cooling, almost metallic quality that justifies the name. The amber and musk base feels deliberately sheer rather than plush, creating a skin-close veil where vanilla sweetness and resinous smoke exist in tension. It's a white floral for someone who wants presence without heaviness, tailored enough for the office but with enough contrast to remain interesting.
This is quintessential mid-nineties accessible sophistication—clean white flowers given just enough shadow to avoid blandness, marketed to the woman who wanted edge without alienating her coworkers.
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.
