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.
- Fresh Spicy70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom jumps first, releasing a bright, peppery-green flash that crackles against bergamot’s bitter zest. Jasmine follows quickly, its creamy petals softening the spices and drawing out vetiver’s raw, grassy edge, so the heart feels like sun-warmed earth dusted with white blossoms. As the flowers recede, vetiver takes over, drying into smoky, slightly woody roots while musk swells underneath, turning the composition into a skin-hugging veil of cool earth and soft salt. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then collapses to a clean, mineral whisper perfect for warm spring offices or weekend cafés.
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.