Hidden Shades
Lemon and bergamot create a bright citrus flash that quickly folds into jasmine's creamy petals dusted with labdanum's resinous sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot create a bright citrus flash that quickly folds into jasmine's creamy petals dusted with labdanum's resinous sweetness. The heart thickens as tonka, benzoin and vanilla merge into a soft amber accord that cushions the florals while sandalwood's milky wood keeps the structure airy rather than syrupy. Patchouli arrives late, adding a quiet earthiness that prevents the base from fully confectionary territory, and clean white musk stretches the vanillic amber into a skin-hugging glow. Projection stays polite for the first hour, then collapses to a whisper of almond-tinged tonka with a faint tobacco shadow. The composition behaves like a lighter, more citrus-forward take on the classic oriental template, comfortable in spring office air-conditioning yet too sheer for damp winter coats.
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.
