The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Guaiac Wood
- Myrrh
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles first, a dry bark heat that scorches the resinous lane of myrrh and olibanum into immediate smoke. Labdanum and benzoin pour a molten amber current underneath, letting guaiac and cedar splinter into charred wood shards while sandalwood tries to smooth the cracks with a cold, creamy scrape. Vanilla arrives late, not sweet but waxy, binding the embers to skin and turning the frankincense glow into a persistent leather-edged hum that lasts overnight. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels tailored for dark wool and midnight hotel lobbies rather than summer daylight.
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.
