The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Balsamic55
- Amber55
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Pear
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readQatar opens with a brief citrus veil before the heart establishes its character: pear and peach add a soft, ripe sweetness around the more structural jasmine and violet. The transition to the base is where the composition reveals its ambition — saffron and labdanum unfurl slowly, lending a resinous warmth with a clear Middle Eastern orientation. Ambergris and styrax give the drydown a smooth, near-skin quality; birch contributes a subtle woody sharpness that keeps the sweetness from running unchecked. Benzoin and vanilla anchor everything in a plush, resinous finish. A long-wearing oriental that builds rather than announces itself.
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.
