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.
- Leather65
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Violet
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAn ample citrus opening — lime, lemon, bergamot, clary sage — gives the perfume an almost herbal aromatic top, more cologne-shaped than its eventual weight suggests. Violet, jasmine and may rose appear briefly in the heart but never dominate; the structure is already pulling toward the base.
That base is the real engine. Tonka, leather and birch tar pile a smoky-sweet hide accord against ambergris and vanilla, while saffron and pink pepper run a warm spice line through cedar and patchouli. The smoky-leather edge keeps the sweetness from cloying. It wears like a citrus aromatic that grew up into a leather oriental over the course of an evening.
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.
