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.
- Vanilla55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot at the top is a courtesy. The composition is a heart-and-base perfume — gardenia, jasmine, ylang and orange blossom layered with violet and rose into a thick, creamy floral. The whites carry most of the volume; the rose softens the seams.
The base is unusually short for a perfume of this density: vanilla, cedar and musk, nothing more. That restraint is the point — it leaves the white florals exposed instead of burying them under resin. The vanilla is comforting rather than dessert-sweet, the cedar dry, the musk close. It wears like a floral perfume that knows exactly how heavy it wants to be and stops there.
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.
