The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky90
- Yellow Floral80
- Amber70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
- Incense
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a sharp citric spark that evaporates within minutes, clearing space for the heart. Jasmine and ylangang braid into a creamy yellow floral accord, their indolic edges softened by a measured clove heat that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. The base arrives early: patchouli pushes earth-forward wood, labdanum and benzoin melt into a leathery amber resin, vanilla rounds the corners, while incense smoke threads through musk to leave a dry, tarry skin imprint. Projection stays arm-length for four hours before collapsing into a quiet resinous murmur that clings to fabric until morning. Cool fall evenings and formal dinners let the smoky amber core glow without overheating.
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.
