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
- Musky70
- Balsamic60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readRisqué opens with minimal ceremony: lemon and bergamot, functional and bright. The floral heart arrives without fanfare — jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose in the traditional chypre formation, each present but none dominating. Then the base arrives, and it is unambiguous. Oakmoss and civet — the twin pillars of classical chypre construction — hit together at full weight. Labdanum and patchouli deepen the resinous foundation; cedar provides structural dryness. Civet is deployed here without apology: its warm, skin-close, animalic quality was central to pre-IFRA perfumery and has become increasingly rare. For those familiar with the classical chypre canon, Risqué reads as a deliberate and technically accomplished statement of intent.
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.
