Cadenza
Jasmine and bergamot start things off with a familiar green-floral lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral70
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readJasmine and bergamot start things off with a familiar green-floral lift. Lily of the valley forms the heart on its own — a single white floral that comes across clean and slightly dewy rather than heady. The effect is understated and soft.
Sandalwood, vetiver, and patchouli anchor the base, pulling the composition toward mossy, earthy woods. Amber and musk add warmth without sweetness. The overall character channels classic aldehydic-adjacent femininity — poised, clean, and somewhat retro. Better for cooler months and formal or evening settings where restraint reads as elegance.
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.
