Matéo
The opening arrives with a dense fruit cocktail — pineapple, apple, melon, grapefruit, and lemon all competing for space, with ginger and pink pepper adding a bright, fizzing spice underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fruity70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Ginger
- Apple
- Melon
- Cinnamon
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives with a dense fruit cocktail — pineapple, apple, melon, grapefruit, and lemon all competing for space, with ginger and pink pepper adding a bright, fizzing spice underneath. The sheer volume of top notes creates an exuberant, almost overwhelming first impression.
Cardamom and cinnamon bridge into the base, where things settle considerably. Sandalwood, amber, and vetiver provide a warm, woody floor, while iris lends a quiet powder. Vanilla and caramel sweeten the drydown, and patchouli deepens it.
The composition is ambitious in scale but the base manages to pull the chaos into a coherent warm oriental. Complexity comes from sheer quantity rather than careful interplay.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
