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.
- Citrus80
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, grapefruit and bergamot fuse into a crystalline citrus flash that slices through humid air within the first minutes. Gardenia, jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive quickly, their buttery petals cushioned by orange blossom, while pink pepper sparks tiny fizz against the creamy floral mass. The bouquet stays luminous rather than syrupy because the top citrils keep threading light through the white petals. After ninety minutes sandalwood and cedar dry the petals, labdanum and benzoin add soft amber resin, vanilla sweetens the wood just enough, patchouli gives quiet earth, and musk traps everything close to skin. Projection stays polite, radiating barely a forearm’s length for six hours before collapsing into a clean blond wood and vanillic musk cocoon. Office-safe, spring through early fall, happiest when humidity is low and sleeves are rolled.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
