The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Leather65
- Citrus65
- Mossy60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Fig
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening cuts citrus-sharp—lime and bergamot with lemon's acidic edge—before softening into an unexpectedly green-floral heart. Neroli and jasmine bloom against fig's milky sweetness and violet's powdery whisper, creating tension between brightness and opacity. It's less aggressive than the name suggests, more composed.
The base is where complexity accumulates: oakmoss and leather anchor the composition in classic masculinity, while cardamom and cinnamon add warmth without tipping into gourmand territory. Castoreum and labdanum provide animalic depth, vetiver keeps things from going too sweet, and vanilla-benzoinround the edges. The result feels deliberate, layered—a fragrance that rewards patience.
This suits someone drawn to dense, referential scents that nod to vintage leather chypres while maintaining contemporary smoothness. It's intimate rather than projective, revealing itself slowly across skin.
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.
