Nemean Lion
Oakmoss and labdanum open with a dense chypre-resinous chord, mossy-green on one side and sweet-balsamic on the other.
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.
- Leather80
- Smoky60
- Balsamic55
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Clary Sage
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readOakmoss and labdanum open with a dense chypre-resinous chord, mossy-green on one side and sweet-balsamic on the other. The entry feels immediately classical and dark, with no citrus to soften it.
Jasmine, pink pepper, and clary sage carry the heart. The flower brings indolic warmth, pepper adds a tingling lift, and clary sage threads a herbal-musky bridge between the opening and base. The middle is built for weight rather than airiness.
Leather, oud, sandalwood, amber, and musk close out the dry-down with a deep animal-resin base. Leather and oud meet in a smoky, hide-warm finish, with amber adding sweet roundness. The overall character is a heavy oriental-chypre with leather-oud emphasis, suited to cold-weather evening wear and dressed contexts.
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.
