The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla70
- Rum70
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readA bouquet stuffed into a spice cabinet. The heart piles white florals on top of each other — gardenia, neroli, jasmine, ylang, orange blossom — softened with heliotrope and rose into something creamy rather than green.
Underneath, the structure goes warm and edible: tonka and vanilla anchored by sandalwood and cedar, lifted by ginger, cinnamon, cardamom and pink pepper. Cumin and rum drag a faintly skin-musky line through the dry-down, with orris adding cold powder to keep the gourmand from collapsing into sugar. The whole thing is rich, slow, and decidedly worn — closer to a velvet evening coat than a daytime floral.
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.
