The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- White Floral50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readA pale floral built around lily and jasmine, Elegantly Tokyo opens with cool, almost aquatic lily—green stems rather than heavy blooms. There's a translucence here that feels deliberate, like looking through rice paper rather than stained glass.
The jasmine arrives quietly, never indolic or lush. Instead it stays restrained, polite even, creating a soap-clean effect that skews more bathroom counter than garden. The overall impression is of freshness maintained past its natural arc, a white floral held at arm's length.
This suits someone who wants floral signaling without floral commitment—office-appropriate, plane-safe, the olfactive equivalent of a pressed white shirt. It won't announce itself across a room, which may be precisely the point.
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.