Sillage is a four-person perfume house. Every fragrance is built as a pyramid — top notes that greet, heart notes that settle, base notes that stay on skin and fabric long after the top has faded.
Every fragrance in the collection sits in one of these families. Choose a wedge to browse it.
Scroll the rail — six fragrances currently in the collection, arranged the way they'd sit on the actual counter.
The top note is what sells a fragrance across a counter in four seconds. It is also the part that means the least — bergamot and citrus burn off within the hour on most skin, and what's left underneath is the actual fragrance you'll wear for the rest of the day.
We spend more formulation time on base notes than on anything else in the pyramid, because that's the part nobody smells in the first four seconds and everybody remembers by the end of the evening.
A fragrance that's balanced on the strip and boring on skin has failed. We only test on skin now, strips are for the trade show.— C. Delacroix-Wen
Oud is the ingredient everyone thinks they understand and almost nobody has smelled unblended. It is not subtle. Our job is mostly restraint.— T. Okonkwo-Reyes
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We get asked constantly about bottle design. It is the least interesting part of what we do.
Natural vanilla varies year to year. We've started disclosing that instead of formulating around it.
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