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.
- White Floral70
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes a quick metallic-citrus spark before jasmine swells into a creamy white-floral wave, its indolic edges softened by peach lactones and a tart black-currant snap that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. The fruit-floral heart hovers for an hour, then sandalwood and cedar dry it out, while benzoin and vanilla pour a warm, caramelized ribbon underneath; patchouli adds quiet earthiness, preventing the base from becoming a dessert glaze. Musk sheathes the woods in a clean skin-hugging film, so the final impression is soft, slightly jammy, yet still luminous. Projection stays within arm’s length, ideal for daytime fall events or an intimate dinner when you want a refined gourmand-floral whisper rather than a loud statement.
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.
