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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Cinnamon
- Birch
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes metallic-green, slicing open the velvet curtain of May rose that surges forward almost immediately. The citrus is brief; ylang-ylang fattens the bloom with banana-custard richness while cinnamon starts to warm the petals from within. Birch tar and galbanum thread smoke and bitter stem through the bouquet, preventing it from liquefying into simple sweetness. Vanilla, benzoin and patchouli roll in as a dark, molten amber, turning the rose lacquered and faintly spiced, the nutmeg adding a dry, peppery rasp to the leathered bloom. Hours later the musk remains skin-close, a smouldering, tar-smeared rose glowing that projects quietly but stains fabric and memory alike. Cool autumn evenings and structured coats feel its natural habitat.
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.
