Aaliyah
Mint and lavender open with an aromatic, slightly medicinal freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMint and lavender open with an aromatic, slightly medicinal freshness. Lavender is front-facing — clean and herbal rather than soapy.
Leather, black pepper, and violet form an unusual heart — the leather is dry and assertive, black pepper adds a prickle, and violet softens with powdery florality. The combination is more dramatic than the opening suggests.
Sandalwood, jasmine, amber, and vanilla close with warmth. Note prior scores leather and violet highest, confirming those as the twin anchors. The resulting character is a cool aromatic opening transitioning to warm leather-violet — an interesting, slightly unisex fragrance suited to cooler weather and evening wear.
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.
