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.
- Amber60
- Musky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Peach
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly before heliotrope shifts the register toward something warmer and softly powdery. The heart — jasmine, violet, and peach, held together by heliotrope's almond-adjacent quality — reads as simultaneously floral and fruited, never committing fully to either. The base resolves this tension gracefully: sandalwood, vanilla, and ambergris cohere into a creamy skin warmth, lifted by vetiver and patchouli to keep it from becoming too close. Cinnamon threads through the mid-stage and into the drydown, adding a spice note that grounds the sweetness. Britannia wears close and lasts long — less a statement piece than a presence, one that makes itself felt at proximity rather than from across a room.
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.
