Colonia Assoluta
A heavier, more shadowed take on the house cologne.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cedar
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA heavier, more shadowed take on the house cologne. Bergamot opens cleanly but doesn't dominate — the composition pivots quickly into a green-floral heart of jasmine and ylang-ylang threaded through cedar and vetiver, which gives it a damp, woody undertow that older Italian colognes rarely carry.
The base is where the 'assoluta' part earns its name: oakmoss and patchouli pull the whole thing into chypre territory, with white musk smoothing the edges. It wears longer and darker than a citrus cologne, with the slightly mineral character of forest floor under sun — closer to a cologne grown into a daytime chypre than a true freshness.
Scent twins
In this family
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