The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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
- Woody60
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readRoja Dove's Aoud opens with the obligatory citrus—bergamot and lemon—but these are brief, evaporating within minutes to reveal the architecture below. May rose, jasmine, and ylang-ylang unfurl in the heart, lush and dense, the ylang-ylang lending a slightly rubbery, tropical edge that offsets the cleaner rose. Saffron threads through everything, metallic and honey-warm, binding the florals to what comes next.
The base is the point: sandalwood and cedar anchored by leather, ambergris, cinnamon, patchouli, nutmeg, and vanilla—a layered, unhurried oriental built in the full tradition of the form. Nothing here is restrained. The result is heavy, tenacious, and unambiguous—the kind of fragrance that enters a room and stays.
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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.
