The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Chocolate70
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Freesia
- Coffee
- Amber
- Cedar
- Teakwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee and almond, opened on a freesia stem. The roasted bitterness of coffee leads, but heliotrope softens it almost immediately — the marzipan side of cherry pits and warm milk. Freesia keeps the heart from getting heavy, sketching a pale floral line over the gourmand thrum.
The drydown skews dry-warm rather than sweet. Cedar lends a clean pencil-shaving spine, amber rounds the corners, and musk holds the whole thing close to skin. There's no vanilla here to pull it into dessert territory; the coffee stays bitter, the heliotrope stays almond-floral, and the wood keeps the composition upright.
Wears like a knit sweater on cool evenings — close, faintly bittersweet, not sugared.
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.