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.
- Rose60
- Floral60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Peach
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly and gives way fast — within a few minutes the perfume is firmly in its heart, an enormous floral bouquet of jasmine, rose, neroli, and ylang threaded with peach and a soft heliotrope hum.
Underneath, orris lends a cool powdery shadow that contrasts the sweetness of vanilla and ambergris. Sandalwood and patchouli furnish a warm bed; musk smooths the seams. The peach stays present longer than expected, lifting the florals just enough to keep them from going syrupy.
It wears like a powdered drape rather than a perfume — close to the skin, slow to develop, and quietly persistent. Soft, romantic, decidedly evening.
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.
