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.
- Almond60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Violet Leaf
- Orange Blossom
- Mimosa
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readA creamy magnolia opens the composition with a soft lemon-tinted petal quality, lifted slightly by a watery freshness rather than a sharp citrus.
The heart introduces a green, slightly bitter violet-leaf snap that cuts the floral creaminess, while orange blossom and mimosa add a yellow, honeyed warmth. The bouquet stays airy throughout, never turning indolic or dense.
Heliotrope carries the drydown alone, with its almond-marzipan sweetness and a powdery softness that reads as cosmetic and gentle. The overall arc is short and quiet: a luminous floral that settles into a faintly almond-sweet, slightly aquatic-powdery whisper within a few hours. Sillage stays close, and the composition suits warm-weather daytime wear and quiet, feminine occasions.
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.
