Six ways to draw the sillage.
Sillage — the trail a scent leaves through a day — is the timeline footer in the scent portrait. Same wear-curve data underneath; six visual treatments. Each frame mimics the actual layout: a 1000×120 stage with the time labels above and the legend below.
Lines — the current treatment.
Three thin curves at 55–70% opacity, 1.4–1.6px stroke. Minimal, restrained, easy to read. The baseline against which the others are measured.
Filled areas — atmospheric.
Same curves with translucent fills (10–14% opacity) underneath each line. Reads more like an atmospheric chart — closer to the way fragrance actually feels in the room.
Radial — a clock face.
Time wraps around a circle. Morning at 12, noon at 3, evening at 6, night at 9. Three concentric ribbons trace each note's projection. Closer to a perfume diary than a chart; less utilitarian, more poetic.
Particle field — a drifting cloud.
Stippled dots that rise and drift — a cloud, not a curve. Density follows the wear curve; size and softness vary so the field reads as atmosphere rather than data. The three notes overlap and cross-tint at their edges. Motion makes it feel like the scent is actually moving through the room.
Stems — like a music score.
Discrete vertical strokes at fixed time intervals; height = intensity. Three rows stacked, each note a row. Reads like sheet music for a fragrance — precise, rhythmic, technical.
Vertical column — like a perfume bottle.
Time runs top-to-bottom: morning at the top, evening at the bottom. Three notes layered as gradients sliding down a column the height of a fragrance bottle. Reads less like a chart, more like an artifact.
Pick one — or swap by ambition.
The current line treatment (01) earns its keep — restrained, easy to read in the timeline footer. Filled areas (02) is the safest distinct upgrade. Radial (03) and Vertical (06) reframe the entire footer; they'd require more vertical real estate and would change the pacing of the portrait. Particle field (04) is the most poetic — animated, atmospheric, the wear curve felt rather than read; the trade is precision. Stems (05) reads precise + technical — good if you want the wear curve to feel like an instrument reading.