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.
- Lavender80
- Amber75
- Patchouli65
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Lily of the Valley
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readA bright lemon-bergamot opening that fades fast — the citrus is a doorway, not a destination. The heart is where the composition takes its real shape: lavender and lily-of-the-valley laid against labdanum and nutmeg, an unusual pairing of cool-aromatic florals against warm-resin-spice.
The drydown is deep and a little vintage in feel — patchouli grounds the resin while ambergris keeps the trail soft and skin-warmed rather than incensed. The whole reads as a high-concentration parfum rather than a daytime spray; denser, slower, more masculine-floral than the name's ambré-petal suggestion implies.
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.
