The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- White Floral50
- Animalic50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Green Mandarin
- Mandarin Orange
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA Jo Malone composition for Zara's 2021 Blossom Collection, and the lineage shows: green mandarin and mandarin orange open with that signature bright, almost-translucent citrus, juicy without being sticky. The transition is quick — neroli and jasmine arrive nearly together, both more luminous than indolic, sketching the white-flower idea in pale strokes.
The drydown is amber and musk, soft and laundry-clean, holding the florals at a sociable distance rather than pulling them into anything heavy. It's a daytime perfume in the cleanest sense — bright, cordial, undemanding — built for spring shoulders and bare wrists.
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.
