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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Tropical50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Litchi
- Rose
- Turkish Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and pink pepper open with an energetic freshness — the currant's dark berry sharpened by pepper's tingle. The rose heart is layered with litchi adding a sweet-tropical brightness that lifts the floral above a simple soliflore and keeps it dynamic through the middle register. Patchouli and amber ground the dry-down without dominating, letting vanilla add softness behind the rose that lingers pleasantly on skin. Jo Malone's Vibrant Cities spirit — bold fruit, centered floral, warm exit — reads clearly here without requiring the house's price 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.
