The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral70
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Blackberry
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBlackberry and citrus notes open with a bright, jammy fruitiness that is immediately tempered by bergamot's aromatic freshness. Cinnamon introduces a warm-spicy accent that intertwines with magnolia and jasmine, creating a floral heart with subtle phenolic undertones. Violet and rose add a powdery texture that contrasts with the fruity top, lending classical elegance to the composition. The base reveals sandalwood's creamy woodiness alongside vetiver's earthy dryness and benzoin's vanillic resin. Patchouli provides an earthy anchor while musk and ambergris add animalic depth to the long-lasting dry-down. This complex scent evolves significantly over six hours, projecting strongly initially then settling with formal weight suited for cool weather events.
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.
