The Architects Club
The Architects Club opens with a bright, peppery citrus flourish—bergamot and lemon sharpened by pink pepper—before quickly settling into its true character: a refined, aromatic lavender softened by warm spices.
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.
- Lavender80
- Citrus65
- Warm Spicy60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readThe Architects Club opens with a bright, peppery citrus flourish—bergamot and lemon sharpened by pink pepper—before quickly settling into its true character: a refined, aromatic lavender softened by warm spices. The cardamom and nutmeg lend a subtle smokiness without veering gourmand, while clary sage adds an herbal, almost medicinal cleanliness that keeps the composition from feeling too cozy.
As it develops, guaiac wood and amber emerge to anchor the lavender in a gently resinous warmth. The vanilla here is restrained, more of a rounding agent than a sweetener, allowing the wood to maintain its dry, pencil-shaving quality. The effect is less barbershop than private study—polished wood, tobacco-free tweed, the ghost of vetiver-spiked cologne on a collar.
This is a composed, grown-up fragrance for those who appreciate traditional men's scents but want something quieter and less overtly masculine. It wears close, like good tailoring, and asks nothing of its audience beyond a willingness to notice small, deliberate details.
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.
