The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ambergris
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens bright and crystalline, its zest slicing through bergamot's softer citrus oil to create a sharp, sunlit prelude. Jasmine enters next, its indolic bloom swelling the heart with creamy white petals that tame the citrus snap and prepare skin for resinous descent. The base folds ambergris' salty skin-warmth into labdanum's leathery amber, while benzoin and vanilla pour a molten caramel glow that cedar keeps dry and patchouli earths with cocoa-dark humus. Over hours the lemon never fully vanishes; instead it hovers like a ghost above the vanillic amber, turning the composition into a luminous oriental that breathes rather than shouts. Projection stays within arm's length for most of the day, making it office-safe yet present, and the salty ambergris core thrives in cool fall air where its musky tendrils can coil without overheating.
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.
