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.
- Tuberose70
- Mossy65
- Floral60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and bergamot start the perfume crisp and almost herbal, with a green bitterness that sharpens the white florals waiting underneath. Within minutes, tuberose pushes through, joined by jasmine, ylang, and rose — a creamy, slightly indolic bouquet built for projection.
The base turns the composition darker than the heart suggests. Oakmoss, vetiver, patchouli, cedar, and galbanum supply a dry chypre architecture; cinnamon adds glow; castoreum lays down an animalic leather smudge under the florals.
It wears assertive, classical, and adult — neither retro pastiche nor minimalist. Best in cool air and worn with intent, not casually.
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.
