The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Aromatic50
- Vanilla50
- Animalic50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readRoja Dove's Danger opens with a sharp aromatic sweep—tarragon and lavender anchored by citrus—that feels both classical and oddly subversive. There's an immediate tension between the clean fougère tradition and something darker lurking underneath. As it settles, cumin and clove introduce a warm, skin-close spice that borders on confrontational, while leather and oakmoss provide structure without rigidity.
The contradiction is the point: floral notes soften the composition just enough to keep it from turning aggressive, while patchouli and vetiver ground everything in a woody, slightly animalic base. Ambergris and tonka add richness without sweetness. This is fougère reimagined for someone who finds the genre's usual politeness limiting—still recognizable, but with sharper edges and a pulse. It wears close and evolves slowly, revealing complexity rather than announcing it.
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.




