The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 24 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.
- Chocolate70
- Mossy70
- Rose65
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readA classical chypre framework carrying a full garden of white florals. Bergamot opens bright and quickly clears, making way for a dense bouquet of tuberose, jasmine, and ylang-ylang threaded with plum and peach — the heliotrope and orange blossom add a powdery sweetness beneath the more persistent rose and violet. The base is uncompromising: oakmoss, leather, civet, and cumin in full expression, the kind of mossy, animal depth that once defined the genre before restrictions reshaped it. Dense and long-wearing, this is a traditional chypre executed without restraint.
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.
