The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris80
- Vanilla60
- Amber50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Iris
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and incense open in tandem — the ginger crystallized and zesty, the incense already smoking underneath rather than waiting for the heart. Jasmine threads in indolic and warm, an unusual partner for the spice-resin pairing that gives the opening minutes a heady, almost candied weight.
Iris and benzoin in the heart pull the composition toward powder, the iris cool and rooty, the benzoin softly vanillic. The base anchors with ambergris and white musk over vanilla, all three blurring into a creamy, salted-sweet skin finish. It's denser than a typical mass-market floral — closer in spirit to a gourmand-leaning oriental, with the white musk keeping projection in check.
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.