The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Musky65
- Balsamic55
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coconut
- Rum
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is deceptive — bergamot, lemon, and orange suggest something conventional before the composition shifts. Rum and coconut form an almost tropical heart, sweet and slightly boozy, but the base sweeps away any lightness. Civet, castoreum, and labdanum provide a dense animal underpinning that earns the 'nuit' designation; benzoin and guaiac wood push toward incense-tinged darkness. Vetiver contributes an earthy dryness, papyrus a dusty sharpness not often found at this concentration. This is not a comfortable fragrance — it is heady, animalic, and resinous in a way that demands commitment.
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.
