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.
- Mossy90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and aromatic, sliced by bergamot’s citrus edge to create a brisk, barbershop-clean introduction. Ylang-ylang’s creamy banana facet merges with violet’s powdery iris accent, while May Rose softens the heart into a rounded yellow-floral cushion that barely sweetens the moss. The base lands on a thick carpet of oakmoss and sandalwood; cinnamon sparks first, then leather darkens the texture, labdanum and benzoin pour ambered resin, vanilla smooths the folds, and saffron, nutmeg, patchouli, musk and opoponax exhale a faint tobacco-leather smoke. Projection stays close for three hours before tightening to a skin-bound, moss-leather hum that endures through a workday. Cool fall days and tailored jackets fit its restrained masculine gravitas.
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.
