Cow
Clary sage cuts the first spray, drying the crisp apple into something faintly bitter and green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Powdery70
- White Floral60
- Green60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Sage
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readClary sage cuts the first spray, drying the crisp apple into something faintly bitter and green. That herbaceous edge keeps the white floral quartet—jasmine, lily of the valley, heliotrope, violet—from turning sugary; instead they read cool, stemmy, slightly waxy. As the apple recedes, heliotrope’s almond-like dust teams with benzoin to form a soft, powdery haze that muffles the flowers yet stays transparent. Vetiver enters late, splitting the powder with earthy, rooty smoke while amber spreads a mild, caramelised warmth beneath the musk. Projection hovers at arm’s length for four hours then collapses to skin, leaving a clean, hay-laced wood impression that feels best on breezy spring or early-fall days.
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.
