Wavechild
Orange and lemon create a bright, effervescent citrus opening that feels like carbonated zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Coconut80
- Citrus70
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Coconut
- Amberwood
- Ambergris
- Cocoa
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and lemon create a bright, effervescent citrus opening that feels like carbonated zest. The heart introduces coconut, turning the composition from sparkling to creamy as the lactone softens the citric edges and adds a sunscreen-like warmth. Amberwood and ambergris build a dry, salty-mineral bed that keeps the coconut from going suntan-lotion sweet, while a quiet cocoa powder dusts the base with matte chocolate that lingers close to skin. Over hours the citrus fades into a clean, blond-wood cocobolo accord, projecting a breezy skin-salted aura rather than a sugary tropics bomb. Projection stays at conversational radius for six hours, ideal for warm weekends or travel days when you want beach vibes without the sugar hangover.
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.
