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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Coffee
- Jasmine
- White Chocolate
By the editors · 2 min readOriental Delice opens with a dark, roasted coffee note — bitter and present, without the artificial mocha sweetness common in gourmand fragrances. Jasmine enters at the heart in a relatively clean, sunlit register, bridging the bitter opening and the sweetness that follows. White chocolate closes the composition with creamy warmth, completing the transition from bitter to floral to sweet in a sequence that is compressed but legible.
At three notes the construction is minimal. The coffee-to-jasmine-to-chocolate arc works because the transitions are genuine rather than forced. An accessible gourmand-oriental suited to cooler weather and casual evening contexts, projecting modestly and wearing close after the first hour.
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.
