sillage
sillage noun: the trail of scent left behind by one who wears perfume. Also the alternative form of silage.
Noun
sillage (countable and uncountable, plural sillages)
- The trail of scent left behind by one who wears perfume.
- The smell was everywhere back then, especially at college parties, which reeked of the stuff (I also remember sillage clouds of Eternity For Women hanging in the air as well). […] [Drakkar Noir] had face-melting power, with 24-hour longevity and sillage that could kill a plant.2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2011
- Perfumers prize sillage—the wake of aroma that trails the wearer, lingering after she's gone—precisely because its sensory residue must be manufactured to exist.2013 July 12, Megan Garber, “What If You Could Snapchat a Scent?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2013
Also used as
sillage is also the alternative form of silage.
Forms of sillage
| plural | sillages |
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Origin of sillage
Borrowed from French sillage (literally “wake”).
Questions about sillage
- What does sillage mean?
- Sillage means the trail of scent left behind by one who wears perfume.
- What part of speech is sillage?
- Sillage is a noun.
- What is the plural of sillage?
- The plural of sillage is sillages.
Words near sillage in the dictionary
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