The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Orange Blossom
- Apricot
- Raspberry
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLemon snaps open with a sherbet fizz that quickly folds into orange blossom’s soapy brightness. Apricot’s fuzzy sweetness rides the citrus wake, turning the heart into candied fruit leather. Raspberry keeps the sugar high alive while vanilla thickens the base into pink frosting, musk adding a clean skin pillow for the candy to rest on. On skin the lemon fades within minutes, leaving a chewy raspberry-vanilla ribbon that stays linear and close, projecting no further than a forearm’s radius. Best for warm spring weekends, playground swings, or any place where smelling like a fruit snack is the whole point.
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.
