The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Almond50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Raspberry
- Almond
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot create a bright, effervescent opening that quickly folds into a plush almond-heliotrope core, the raspberry adding a tart lift that keeps the nutty cream from turning marzipan-heavy. Lily of the valley steers the heart toward clean florals, while violet leaf and galbanum cut through with green snap, preventing the sweet centre from cloying. As the citrus evaporates, tonka and soft sandal-cedar form a pillowy backdrop, oakmoss and patchouli lending a muted earthy crunch that reads more forest-floor than barbershop. Cumin’s quiet sweat and labdanum’s resin slowly warm the skin, stretching the almond glow into a dusk-tinted haze that stays close but persistent. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, ideal for crisp autumn office days or an understated dinner date.
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.
