Cèdre Atlas
Cèdre Atlas opens with black currant and citrus — a dark-fruity freshness more assertive than typical cologne openings.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Powdery50
- Fresh Spicy50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readCèdre Atlas opens with black currant and citrus — a dark-fruity freshness more assertive than typical cologne openings. The black currant adds a berry tartness that gives the top notes an interesting shadow; lemon and bergamot provide brightness without overwhelming the fruit.
The heart is where the cedar name becomes legible: cedar alongside jasmine and apricot makes a warm, slightly sweet woody accord. Apricot softens the wood, jasmine adds depth, and cedar ties the whole phase together with its clean, pencil-shaving quality.
Papyrus in the base is an unusual material — dry, reedy, recalling ancient parchment — that works well with vetiver and amber to produce a drydown that's earthy-woody without sweetness. A cologne-style fragrance with actual staying power and a genuinely distinctive character.
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.
