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.
- Leather75
- Mossy65
- Balsamic60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readGreat Britain is built around leather — it frames everything else in the composition. Bergamot, lemon, and clary sage open with a herbal-citrus quality; the sage's slightly medicinal coolness delays the leather's arrival. Jasmine and violet form a spare floral bridge between top and base without commanding much presence. The base is where the composition makes its argument: leather, oakmoss, labdanum, and ambergris in the tradition of grand British chypres — Cuir de Russie-adjacent in structure. Styrax and orris add a rooty, resinous depth. Long-wearing and formally restrained, it is a perfume that knows exactly what it is.
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.
