Chaos
Lemon arrives first, sharp and brief, giving way quickly to jasmine — full-bodied and slightly indolic rather than sheer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Patchouli60
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLemon arrives first, sharp and brief, giving way quickly to jasmine — full-bodied and slightly indolic rather than sheer. Patchouli enters alongside it, anchoring the floral without pulling it into the gourmand territory patchouli sometimes inhabits.
Oakmoss and ambergris define the base. The moss reads earthy and cool, while ambergris adds a salty-marine quality that the fragrance's general notes confirm as intentional. Together they push the composition toward something textured and semi-aquatic rather than clean or transparent.
The overall effect is a damp, natural-smelling fragrance — earthy moss, seawater suggestion, and white floral in an uneasy but coherent balance. Works better in mild or cool conditions than in heat.
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.
