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.
- White Floral70
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Black Currant
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, clearing space for a plush heart where jasmine and May Rose mingle with ylang-yl’s banana-custard sweetness, while heliotrope dusts everything with marzipan powder. Black currant keeps the florals from turning sugary, adding a tart purple snap that violet soon softens to suede. Labdanum bridges heart to base, pulling the composition into a creamy incense track lined with sandalwood and benzoin; vanilla thickens the resin without overt gourmand lean, and patchouli adds a quiet earthy rasp. Pink pepper sparkles only at the edges, letting musk and cedar dry the trail to skin-warmed wood. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, tilting the scent toward cool evenings and smart-casual offices rather than humid 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.
