The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Red Berries
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readCreated for Zara's Jo Malone Vibrant Cities series, Stunningly Venice is deliberately minimal. Bergamot opens with clean brightness; a red-berry accord follows, reading more cranberry-tart than jammy-sweet. The dry-down is myrrh — a resinous, gently incense-like base that gives the composition more weight and staying power than its note count implies.
The arc from citrus-fruit to balsamic resin is genuinely interesting for a fragrance this lean. It fades within a few hours, but the transition justifies the short ride. Works equally well as a standalone light option or as a base layer under heavier orientals.
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.