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.
- Sweet85
- Vanilla75
- Leather65
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Sage
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening salvo of clary sage—herbal, almost medicinal—gives way almost immediately to a cushioned center of tonka bean and iris. The effect is softer than you'd expect from the "intense" designation, more enveloping than aggressive. The iris brings a faintly powdered quality, not vintage cosmetics but something more restrained, while the tonka lends a nutty warmth that prevents the composition from turning too abstract.
As it settles, the leather emerges not as rough hide but as a polished, suede-like impression, woven seamlessly with vanilla. This is where the fragrance finds its identity: a dressed-up comfort, formal but approachable. It feels tailored for evening wear in cooler months, though never heavy.
Valentino Uomo Intense suits someone looking for presence without volume, refinement without austerity. It's masculine in the traditional sense but softened at every edge, suitable for those who want their fragrance noticed only at close range.
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.
