The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather75
- Citrus75
- Tobacco70
- Rum
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Pineapple
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readApex opens with a sharp citrus blast—bergamot and lemon cutting through the air—before pineapple emerges, sweet and almost metallic, threading through jasmine's indolic heft. The brightness doesn't linger. Within minutes, the fragrance sinks into a dense, resinous base where leather, tobacco, and oakmoss create a dark, old-school masculine architecture. Rum adds a sticky sweetness, benzoin and labdanum thicken the texture, and olibanum brings a smoky, cathedral-like gravity.
This is Roja Dove working in his maximal mode: layered, heavy, unapologetically rich. The name suggests ambition, and the composition delivers on weight and complexity. It's built for evening wear and cool weather, suited to those who prefer fragrance that announces presence rather than whispers suggestion. Not a daily reach, but a deliberate one—formal, intense, and uncompromising in its richness.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
