The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather90
- Cinnamon80
- Animalic70
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash bright and brief before saffron and cinnamon seize the heart, their hot, dusty spice riding roughshod over the citrus. Jasmine and ylang-ylang provide only a thin floral veil, soon smothered by a resinous, animalic base where leather, ambergris and patchouli fuse into a smoky, salty skin-scent. Cedar and sandalwood keep the structure dry, stopping the vanilla from turning creamy; instead the dry-down stays leathery, slightly sour, with musk amplifying the barnyard facet. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a close, tobacco-tinted whisper that clings to cuffs and scarf fibers alike. Cool autumn evenings, dark bars, cashmere coats—anywhere you want to smell like you’ve just stepped out of a tannery lit by embered oud chips.
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.
