The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPear and black-currant burst first, juicy and almost effervescent, their tart sugar quickly braided with freesia’s cool watery green. Jasmine enters within minutes, turning the fruit syrupy and lending a faintly indolic lift that keeps the heart from candy overload. Amber warms the underside early, cradling the jasmine in a soft resinous glow, while patchouli adds a cocoa-dusted earth that drags the sweetness toward dusk. Chocolate arrives late, not dessertlike but brittle and dark, powdering the amber until the skin smells of cocoa-dusted suede. Projection stays polite, a two-foot halo perfect for cool spring evenings or a low-lit movie date.
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.