Steel Sugar
Apple and bergamot open with a tart, citrus-fruit brightness that feels more functional than striking — a clean fougère entry without much novelty.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readApple and bergamot open with a tart, citrus-fruit brightness that feels more functional than striking — a clean fougère entry without much novelty. The freshness dissipates at moderate pace.
Lavender and cedar meet in the heart, and together they push the composition toward a classic masculine aromatic register. The lavender is herbal and dry rather than sweet, and the cedar keeps it grounded and linear.
Vetiver, labdanum, and tobacco build a dry, slightly resinous base with earthy depth. Labdanum adds warmth without sweetness; the tobacco reads dry and woody rather than sweet or smoky. The overall character is structured, aromatic, and somewhat austere — a dependable cool-weather fragrance without surprising turns.
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.
