Overpower
Galbanum slashes open with bitter-green sap, sharp as snapped pine needles.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Green80
- White Floral60
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes open with bitter-green sap, sharp as snapped pine needles. Jasmine lands quickly, its white petals rinsed off by the resin so the flower reads cool and slightly saline rather than lush. The pairing keeps the scent vertical: high-contrast, almost chilly. In the dry-down ambergris lends a grey, briny skin while vanilla softens the edges without turning the blend sweet; it feels like driftwood washed in weak tea. Projection stays close but persistent, a cool-day skin-scent that favors linen over wool.
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.
