⊛ learn · lesson 5
words perfumers use
sillage, projection, accord, dry down
the words you will hear.
tap a word to see what it means.
sillage or projection?
people mix them up. projection is how far a perfume reaches around you; sillage is the trail it leaves when you move. one perfume maker's patent even counts the trail as part of projection.
the dry down comes from the base.
remember the pyramid: the dry down is the later phase, when the base takes the lead from the heart.
sources
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française · sillage
- Office québécois de la langue française · sillage
- Firmenich · patent WO2023247599 (projection, trail)
- IFF · patent WO2018071897 (accord)
- Firmenich · patent EP3897865 (dry-down)
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française · nez
- ISIPCA · becoming a perfumer
- Bois de Jasmin · perfume flankers 101
- Now Smell This · perfume glossary
- Carrément Belle · top, middle and base notes