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.
- Tuberose80
- Iris60
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Tuberose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readIris drifts in cool and powdery at the top, less a flower than a dusting — the sort of opening that feels like cold makeup against the wrist.
Tuberose moves through the heart with creamy, almost coconutty weight, its indolic edge softened here so it never tips into nightclub territory. The contrast between iris's chill and tuberose's warmth is the whole idea of this composition. Vanilla in the base ties the two together, lending milky body without turning gourmand.
Wears like a cashmere scarf — close, soft, slightly muted. Suited to colder months and quieter evenings, where its powdery-creamy register has room to settle.
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.