The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose55
- Iris55
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA clean lemon-bergamot opening is barely a pause before the composition lands in its real subject: a rose-jasmine-ylang heart with the powdery hush of orris running through it. The flowers are cool, neither jammy nor green — closer to a cut bouquet on a marble counter than to a garden.
The base draws a quiet chypre line. Oakmoss and patchouli supply the green-damp foundation, sandalwood adds creamy weight, and pink pepper lifts the dry-down with a thin spice. Nothing animalic, nothing gourmand — the perfume stays composed, with iris doing most of the visible work in the second hour.
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.
