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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Narcissus
- Lavender
- Atlas Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe composition opens directly into its heart — jasmine and narcissus together, with the narcissus contributing a green, slightly hay-like sharpness against the jasmine's creamy white-floral plushness. The pairing reads more sophisticated than typical floral bouquets.
Narcissus has an unusual edge — almost solvent-bright, slightly indolic — and it keeps the jasmine from settling into pure prettiness. The heart phase carries most of the composition's identity, with the floral-green tension as its defining quality.
Lavender in the base is unexpected, bridging the florals into a soft aromatic warmth. Atlas cedar adds a dry woody backbone, and musk smooths the finish. The overall character is a sophisticated white-floral with green sharpness, restrained and slightly nostalgic in its register.
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.
