The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral60
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLime and grapefruit snap open with chilled zest, their bitter oils misted by bergamot’s softer edge. Orange blossom drifts in almost immediately, folding the citrus into a creamy white-floral heart while May rose adds a cool, green petal nuance that keeps the accord airy rather than sweet. As the top notes settle, tonka’s vanillic hay meets orris’s cool chalk, forming a powdery bridge that lets vetiver’s damp grass and guaiac’s smoky pencil-shavings rise without turning earthy. Oakmoss and patchouli provide a quiet forest-floor bass, but the composition stays lit by lingering citrus sparkle and a soft cardamom haze, creating a crisp, tailored silhouette that reads more bright colog than heavy chypre. Projection remains polite for the first four hours, then hugs shirt collars through the workday, excelling in spring offices or summer weddings where elegance must stay understated yet memorable.
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.
