Quintessence
Clary sage dominates the opening, its bittersweet herbal facet cutting through lemon and bergamot to create a green-citrus snap that feels almost medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readClary sage dominates the opening, its bittersweet herbal facet cutting through lemon and bergamot to create a green-citrus snap that feels almost medicinal. The heart blooms quickly: jasmine adds indolic depth, mimosa contributes a honeyed pollen dust, while damask rose supplies a velvet-petal richness that softens the earlier herbaceous bite. Patchouli emerges early in the dry-down, stitching the floral bouquet to the sandalwood base with an earthy chocolate thread that darkens the composition. That sandalwood is dry rather than creamy, letting the rose-powder echo linger for hours without turning syrupy. Projection stays within arm’s length for five hours before collapsing to a skin-whisper of dried petals and faint wood dust. Spring daytime wear suits its brightness, yet the patchouli-resin anchor keeps it credible on cool fall walks.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
