So First
So First reframes the heritage First template into something quieter and more contemporary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody50
- Tropical50
- Vanilla50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readSo First reframes the heritage First template into something quieter and more contemporary. Magnolia and bergamot open with a creamy, almost milky sweetness — gentler than the original's aldehydic flash.
The heart pairs jasmine with freesia, kept silken rather than indolic. Sandalwood and vanilla in the base give it a dessert-adjacent finish without ever crossing into gourmand. The whole composition stays close to the skin, lasts through a workday, and reads as a polite, modern white floral — recognizably in the same family as First, but without the era-defining volume.
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.