The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Tobacco55
- Vanilla55
- Amber55
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens light, but ginger and cardamom take over the top almost immediately, dragging the cologne idea sideways into something spicier than refreshing. Neroli and jasmine warm the heart while heliotrope folds in a cherry-almond softness that signals the perfume isn't going to stay airy.
It resolves into a velvet base — sandalwood, ambergris, benzoin, tobacco, vanilla and patchouli — closer to a parfum than a cologne despite the name. The tobacco here is dried-leaf and faintly sweet rather than smoky, with the vanilla rounding it into something cozy. A cologne shape filled with parfum-weight materials; bright at first sniff, slow at the wrist by hour two.
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.
