Hummingbird
The hummingbird makes an apt metaphor: quick, bright, hovering between sweetness and flight.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pear
- Violet Leaf
- Plum
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readThe hummingbird makes an apt metaphor: quick, bright, hovering between sweetness and flight. Apple, pear, and plum in the opening give it an immediate fruitiness — violet leaf threading through provides a green, slightly cool counterpoint. The heart is where the nectar imagery earns its place: ylang-ylang's honeyed cream, peony's soft blush, and mimosa's powdery warmth converging in a way that reads as genuinely botanical rather than synthetic-sweet. Moss, sandalwood, and amber in the base add depth and earthiness, grounding what could have been airy into something that actually lasts. A well-considered niche floral that rewards attention.
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.
