Ancient Fortress
Galbanum snaps open with a bitter-green edge that slices through crisp apple and neroli, creating an austere brightness sharpened by lemon zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Mossy100
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Leather
- Clove
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with a bitter-green edge that slices through crisp apple and neroli, creating an austere brightness sharpened by lemon zest. The heart darkens as leather takes command, its tarry hide warmed by clove's dry burn and nutmeg's dusty sweetness, while the earlier citrus turns smoky and brittle. Sandalwood and cedar emerge gradually, their dry wood grain absorbing the spice oils and stretching the leather into a matte, tobacco-tinted skin. Oakmoss blankets the base with cool forest loam, amber adding only a muted, resinous glow, letting musk hover close like warmed stone. Projection stays arm's length for eight hours, perfect for cool autumn offices or subdued evening events where leather needs to whisper rather than shout.
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.