The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Musky55
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Rose
- Violet Leaf
- Raspberry
- Iris
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia and rose open in a close embrace — the magnolia milky and slightly lemony, the rose tucked underneath as warmth rather than statement. The first impression is bright but not sharp, the kind of floral that reads sophisticated without trying for sweetness.
Violet leaf and raspberry sharpen the heart. The violet leaf adds a cucumber-cool greenness; the raspberry a tart, slightly metallic edge that keeps the iris from drifting too powdery. Iris itself sits between, mineral and quiet. The base of cedar, white musk, and moss is dry and skin-close — moss adds an unexpected vintage-chypre wink that elevates the whole thing past mass-market expectation. A polished violet for cool weather and quiet rooms.
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.
