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.
- Amber70
- Leather70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Heliotrope
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readRosemary on top, alone — an unusual choice that gives the opening a clean, herbal sharpness with no citrus to soften it. The heart turns plush quickly: jasmine, heliotrope, peach and orange blossom build a creamy floral, with labdanum already pushing resin into what should still be the lighter section.
The base is a heavy ambered leather. Tonka, sandalwood, oakmoss, leather and birch tar layer against civet, ambergris, more labdanum, benzoin and vanilla, with saffron and patchouli threading warmth across the top. The composition runs hot and animalic in the dry-down — old-school in a way that feels deliberate rather than dated.
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.
