sillage

Borrowed from French sillage (literally “wake”).

sillage (countable and uncountable, plural sillages)

1. (perfumery) The trail of scent left behind by one who wears perfume.
   • 2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2011:

     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.

   • 2013 July 12, Megan Garber, “What If You Could Snapchat a Scent?”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 July 2013:

     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.

sillage (countable and uncountable, plural sillages)

1. Alternative form of silage.

• gallies, gallise

From siller +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /si.jaʒ/

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sillage m (plural sillages)

1. wake (the path left behind a ship on the surface of the water)

   dans le sillage de ― in the wake of

2. slipstream
3. (perfumery) sillage (trail of scent left behind by one who wears perfume)

• sillonner

• “sillage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.