Boss Bastard
Lemon and bergamot open with a clean, slightly tart brightness that doesn't linger long before the heart takes over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Cedar
- Tobacco
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a clean, slightly tart brightness that doesn't linger long before the heart takes over. Amber and cedar form a warm, resinous backbone, with tobacco adding dry depth rather than sweetness — it reads more like dry leaf than anything smoky.
Sandalwood and vetiver in the base push things in a creamy-earthy direction, while cocoa keeps it from going fully austere. Musk sits underneath, giving the whole composition a skin-close warmth. The overall effect is a structured amber-tobacco fragrance with just enough citrus memory and bittersweet cocoa to keep it from feeling one-dimensional.
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.
