Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Wake; track; specifically, the disturbance of the ether produced by the movement through it of an electrified corpuscle or electron.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of silage.
Examples
“I'd never heard the wonderful term "sillage," which is French for "wake" as in the wake left by a boat and is also used to describe how a perfume leaves behind its scent. is coming soon!”
“I tried the Ropion's creation in eau de toilette and found it, as with most of his perfumes, to be very rich and long-lasting, with the kind of sillage that I adore: the one that envelopes the wearer in the most delicate of gauze and is always present although never overwhelming.”
“In other words, I don't perceive any drastic transformations from top to middle to base notes, however, strangely, the scent smells different when inhaled very closely nose-to-wrist, from a short distance and as "sillage" wafting subtly with one's movements.”
“I don't imagine you want to send prizes to the UK postage - ouch!) but I wanted to show solidarity during your busy time ... and this will give me time to look up "sillage" and "aoud":-)”
“The bombshell rose has to have some of the same elements, such as room-clearing sillage, a strong base of wood/leather/spices/vetiver etc. and a big wallop of sex appeal from animalic elements.”
“It is sweet and, after the rather piercing opening, rather tender, despite its assertive sillage.”
“Lasting power and sillage are both quite good, far better than most department store scents.”
“Up close, there's a minty freshness and oolong, and there seems to be a by sillage going on here that calls to mind that scent I'm sure that if you tear down buildings in West Hollywood or Chelsea or DuPont Circle they would waft this like asbestos...”
“It has excellent sillage on myself, and last surprising long on me as well.”
“Out of the bottle they are quite potent, with impressive sillage and longevity.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sillage’.
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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Exquisite Words
Words that need no description other than their own exquisiteness, either in sound or meaning.
effluvia, petrichor, velvet, leather, crepuscular, sillage, psithurism, strikhedonia, tibialoconcupiscent, tarantism, daduchos, umbrage and 14 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 160 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Seven Letters of Joy
tertile, retinol, opacity, ceilidh, opaline, doughty, luddite, languor, buccula, sillage, delphic, surfeit and 32 more...
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word set10
superstring, nonrepudiation, sandboxed, trojan horse, bandoliers, transmutation, antiauthoritarian, connubiality, flagelliform, appellative, camphoraceous, bollixed and 61 more...
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cocoluxe's Words
sublime, circumambulate, phalanx, schadenfreude, kaffeeklatsch, tantalise, verisimilitude, kudos, doppelganger, sillage, lathy
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Whatever you rolled in, it sure smell...
aka words having to do with scent
oude, sillage, vanilla, chypre, mephitic, noisome, opoponax, patchouli, cardamom, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile and 67 more...
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The Hippopotamus
You'd be surprised just how many words you find in books...
anile, jessed, veridical, spinney, profligate, fustian, ataractic, suzerainty, watchet, ephebe, sillage, rapprochement and 32 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sillage.
palooka Sweet word! Jul 17, 2007
uselessness I used to work with a Hungarian woman who could out-throw Nolan Ryan. You could smell her perfume in the parking lot five minutes before she arrived. Jul 17, 2007
reesetee I never realized this had a name! What a relief. Jul 17, 2007
slumry silage has extremely high sillage, but is highly undesireable. Jul 17, 2007
arby Also known as "throw" in perfume-speak - how far the scent extends from your body. As in "this blend has great throw" or "very little throw - I can only smell it with my nose pressed up against my wrist". Jul 17, 2007
cocoluxe the trail of perfume a wearer leaves in her wake ... Jan 13, 2007