The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Leather75
- Rose70
- Animalic50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Rose
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readThe title suggests a garden walked in leather gloves, and the composition delivers on that image with pleasing economy. Grapefruit opens with a citric tartness that reads as brisk rather than sweet. Rose surfaces in the heart — a clean, mid-register floral without the powdery weight of older rose constructions. Leather ties the structure together at the base, adding an animal dryness that contrasts sharply with the floral above.
The resulting accord is unexpectedly coherent: tart, fresh, and dry in a way that wears more like a men's fragrance than a garden fantasy. Versatile enough for daytime, warm enough for a casual evening.
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.