The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli55
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readA bright citrus opening of lemon, grapefruit and bergamot lasts just long enough to set up the heart, where orange blossom, jasmine and rose share space with a candied peach. Violet adds a powdery cool edge that keeps the fruit from going syrupy.
The base swings into chypre territory — oakmoss, patchouli and a green galbanum lift framing ambergris and vanilla, with violet leaf adding a wet, mineral green up high in the dry-down. Cedar and musk close it. The composition never picks one direction; it sits between fruity floral and chypre, with the moss and galbanum doing more work than usual to keep the fruit honest.
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.
