The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Citrus60
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Plum
- Freesia
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright and slightly bitter, its zest cutting cleanly against a quiet mandarin backdrop. Within minutes, the heart pushes plum forward as a jammy sweetness that darkens the citrus edge while freesia adds a watery green lift, keeping the fruit from turning syrupy. Cedar enters early underneath, sharpening the plum with dry wood shavings that prepare the ground for the base. Tonka bean dominates the dry-down, lending soft almond and hay facets that merge with vanilla to create a mellow, faintly tobacco-tinged skin scent. Projection stays polite, hovering within handshake distance for about five hours before collapsing to a whisper of sweet blond woods. Office-safe and spring-weight, it works best on warm days when you want clean fruit without sugar overload.
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.
