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.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Floral60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readA bright bergamot opening lifts almost immediately into a dense resinous heart — labdanum and frankincense pressed against jasmine and ylang. Cumin sits just behind, lending an animalic warmth that reads as skin rather than spice.
The drydown settles on guaiac wood, oakmoss, patchouli, and benzoin, with pink pepper flickering through. The labdanum doubles back from heart to base, anchoring the whole composition in a sticky balsamic resin.
This wears as a smoky desert oriental — opulent, slightly feral, and meant to project. Best on cooler skin, in low light, when something atmospheric is wanted.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
