Agent Provocateur
The opening is a cool magnolia bloom—clean petals with a slight metallic edge, like white flowers pressed against chrome.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Musky75
- Earthy70
- Amber65
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Vetiver
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a cool magnolia bloom—clean petals with a slight metallic edge, like white flowers pressed against chrome. It doesn't linger in polite territory for long. Within minutes, gardenia arrives thick and creamy, threaded through with vetiver's earthy rasp. The contrast is deliberate: opulent florals grounded by something darker, almost mineral.
As it settles, amber and cedar provide a warm, woody frame that keeps the composition from tipping into heavy sweetness. The musk underneath is skin-close but persistent, adding a slightly animalic undertone that gives the whole thing a pulse. It's unapologetically seductive without resorting to fruit or vanilla shortcuts.
This suits someone who wants their presence felt but not announced—a perfume that wears like expensive lingerie under tailored clothes. Intimate but not shy.
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Scent twins
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