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.
- Amber65
- Leather65
- Patchouli55
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Saffron
- Cedar
- Clove
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot is a bare formality at the top — within a minute the composition is already a forest at dusk. Vetiver, guaiac, cedar and patchouli build a damp-wood platform; clove and saffron throw heat through it, and papyrus adds a paper-dry, smoky thinness that keeps the heart from going too plush.
The base is unapologetically animalic. Civet and castoreum sit alongside labdanum, benzoin, styrax and vanilla, building a leathered amber that pulses warm against skin. There is no top-coat sweetness — the vanilla is more medicinal than dessert. It wears like an old library at night: smoke, hide, ink and resin.
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.
