Modest Une
Lavender hits first with a cool, slightly metallic sting that feels like crushed buds rather than oil.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Lavender90
- Aromatic70
- Earthy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
- Ambroxan
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLavender hits first with a cool, slightly metallic sting that feels like crushed buds rather than oil. Pink pepper arrives within minutes, adding a rosy sparkle that lifts the lavender’s camphor edge and keeps the heart airy instead of soapy. Vetiver and patchouli knit together in the base, delivering dry grass and earthy bark that mute the earlier brightness while ambroxan supplies a clean, ambery glow that lingers on cotton more than skin. During the first hour the scent oscillates between aromatic greenery and soft mineral warmth, then settles into a muted woody haze that stays close but persistent. Projection hovers at arm’s length for three hours before collapsing into a whisper of earthy musk, making it an unobtrusive office choice for cool spring or early fall days.
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.
