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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Violet Leaf
- Freesia
- Ambroxan
- Cedar
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readAccord No. 3 opens with fresh-green apple meeting violet leaf's cool, slightly watery character and freesia's pale floral fizz. The opening is transparent and clean — closer to a laundry-fresh register than to orchard fruit. Ambroxan dominates the heart, providing familiar semi-synthetic warmth that registers as skin, amplified. Cedar and violet frame it without adding structural complexity.
The base of mate, ambrette, and spices delivers a gentle dry, slightly nutty finish that elevates the composition above standard Zara fare. The mate prevents the drydown from becoming purely synthetic. Accord No. 3 reads as a clean-woody everyday wear — simple enough for office, distinctive enough to hold attention.
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.