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.
- Cinnamon60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger opens fizzy and sharp, with bergamot lending a cool citrus lift. The opening reads spicy but not hot — more like a freshly grated rhizome than a curry pantry.
In the heart, cinnamon takes the spice forward and warms it considerably. Ylang-ylang adds a creamy, almost banana-tinted floral underneath, smoothing the cinnamon's edge into something more sensual. The transition into the base is unhurried.
Sandalwood and patchouli build the foundation: creamy wood crossed with earth, with vanilla woven through general accords to give a soft sweet finish. Wears warm and a little ceremonial — better in cool weather and at evening, where the spice and cream can stretch out without competing with daylight.
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.
