Pure Instinct
Pineapple and apple tumble out first, a bright fruit splash sharpened by grapefruit zest and rosemary’s green bite.
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.
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Tuberose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Rosemary
- Grapefruit
- Tuberose
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple and apple tumble out first, a bright fruit splash sharpened by grapefruit zest and rosemary’s green bite. Tuberose immediately swells the heart, its creamy white petals dusted with cardamom heat while galbanum injects a snap of crushed leaves; patchouli and rose keep the floral core earthy and slightly sour. As the fruit sugars recede, leather emerges, smooth and matte, stitched to dry cedar and smoked by vetiver’s rootiness; amber and vanilla warm the seams without turning sweet. Projection stays at arm-length for six hours, then settles into a quiet skin trail. The accord rides the line between tropical cocktail and tailored jacket, wearable in warm spring nights or air-conditioned offices.
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.
