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.
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Osmanthus
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles over lemon and osmanthus, a bright snap that quickly folds into a white-floral core where tuberose dominates, its creamy radiance pulling jasmine and rose into a single lush bouquet. The petals stay lifted for hours, never collapsing into indoles, while amber seeps up early to warm the blend and patchouli adds a dry cocoa edge that keeps the flowers from tipping syrupy. Musk settles last, softening the amber-patchouli spine into a skin-hugging glow that still throws a polite halo. Projection stays arm’s-length, making it office-safe yet present, and the sweet-tart balance reads best in spring and early fall when humidity can amplify the osmanthus.
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.
