Interlude 53 Man
The opening barely whispers—a faint bergamot that vanishes almost before it registers, leaving you suspended in anticipation.
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.
- Smoky85
- Woody75
- Balsamic70
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Opoponax
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening barely whispers—a faint bergamot that vanishes almost before it registers, leaving you suspended in anticipation. What follows is not gradual but immersive: a cathedral of incense billowing through shadowed stone, thick with labdanum and opoponax that cling like resinous smoke to cold surfaces. The amber here is not sweet but austere, more fossil than honey.
As it settles, leather emerges—not the supple kind but something older, smoke-cured and monastic. Sandalwood provides structure beneath the haze, while patchouli darkens the edges without dominating. The effect is less composition than atmosphere: enclosed spaces, ritual, the weight of silence after bells have rung.
This is fragrance for those who find comfort in density and shadow. It asks for patience and rewards immersion, wearing more like an environment than an accessory—contemplative, uncompromising, and indifferent to the room around you.
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.
