Adventure Story
The opening of Adventure Story reads like a page turned at speed—bright citrus and green herbs collide with peppery spice, creating an immediate sense of forward motion.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Leather50
- Earthy
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening of Adventure Story reads like a page turned at speed—bright citrus and green herbs collide with peppery spice, creating an immediate sense of forward motion. There's an aromatic sharpness here, almost medicinal in its clarity, that gives way quickly to warmer, woodier territory. Cedar and a dry, papery vetiver anchor the composition without weighing it down.
As it develops, the fragrance reveals a faintly resinous sweetness, something between amber and benzoin, but always tempered by that initial freshness. The woods remain present throughout, threading through every stage like a steady narrative line. This is the kind of scent that feels purposeful rather than decorative—linear in the best sense, moving steadily from daylight into dusk without losing its direction. It suits someone who prefers their fragrances legible and unfussy, with enough character to hold attention but no interest in spectacle.
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.
