The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Strawberry
- Magnolia
- Peach
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readDésir Pour Femme leads with a candied strawberry note that sets the register immediately — bright, pink, unmistakably mid-2000s fruity-floral. Within minutes the heart opens into magnolia, peach and freesia around a sheer rose, the fruit lingering through the transition rather than handing off cleanly.
The base is light: sandalwood and patchouli pulled back to a creamy haze, more support than statement. It projects modestly and fades within a few hours, a daytime fragrance built for warm-weather casual wear — the kind of pink, uncomplicated scent that sits comfortably alongside denim and sun.
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.
