Bamboo & Green Tea
Sage and yuzu open brisk and resinous, the herb’s camphor edge slicing through the citrus to create a cool, slightly bitter green top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Yuzu
- Black Pepper
- Clove
- Grapefruit
- Neroli
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readSage and yuzu open brisk and resinous, the herb’s camphor edge slicing through the citrus to create a cool, slightly bitter green top. Black pepper and clove add dry heat underneath, so the first impression is simultaneously airy and peppery. The heart folds neroli’s bright honeyed blossom into a quiet bamboo water-green accord, while frankincense and labdanum supply a translucent amber haze that keeps the composition from turning too sharp. Twin patchoulis—earthy in the heart, smoky in the base—bridge into oakmoss and vetiver, grounding the scent in damp forest floor and vetiver smoke. Ambergris lends a mineral saltiness that lifts the leather, so the dry-down feels like weathered driftwood rather than plush hide. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy warm-weather work scent that still carries enough resinous depth for early fall.
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.
