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.
- Iris85
- Powdery70
- Balsamic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Lemon
- Plum
- Atlas Cedar
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSilk! Oud opens with pink pepper over citrus — orange and lemon providing brightness while the pepper delivers a dry, slightly resinous edge. The transition into the heart is smooth; plum adds a dark, mildly fruity quality, while iris and cedar introduce a cool, powdery dryness that balances the fruitiness.
Rose sits within the heart but reads quietly alongside the iris and cedar rather than asserting itself. The base layers sandalwood and benzoin over a gentle musk, the benzoin adding a soft balsamic warmth that rounds everything out. The overall character is powdery and softly spiced, with fruit and florals providing texture rather than boldness. Calm and composed rather than dramatic.
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.
