The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
- Orris
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readMay Rose opens with a plush, honeyed petal richness that immediately sets a velvety floral tone. Magnolia steps in next, its cool lemon-cream facet lifting the rose while Peach adds a faint, fuzzy sweetness that keeps the heart from turning too prim. Lily of the Valley contributes a dewy green sparkle, tightening the bouquet and preventing over-ripeness. As the heart quiets, Sandalwood and Orris create a buttery wood-powder cushion that feels like warm skin, while Ambergris lends a salty, almost skin-like musk that clings close. Labdanum, Benzoin and Vanilla slowly fuse into a soft amber glow that radiates a low, caramel-pink light for hours, never loud but continuously present. Projection stays within conversational distance; the scent feels made for spring garden parties or quiet afternoon weddings in mild weather.
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.
