Lavender on the Rocks
A lavender treated as a savory ingredient rather than a barbershop reference.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Lavender75
- Honey60
- Amber60
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Rose
- Lavender
- Almond
- Honey
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA lavender treated as a savory ingredient rather than a barbershop reference. Basil and rose open with a green-bitter lift — herbal first, floral second — and signal that this isn't a fougère.
The heart is the unusual stretch: lavender padded against almond and honey, with rose returning to keep the powder at bay. Almond gives a marzipan creaminess, honey gives the wax, and the lavender stops them from collapsing into a dessert. Saffron threads through with its leather-bitter spice.
The drydown is where the title earns out — oud and guaiac wood pull the lavender into dim smoke, amber softens the resins, and the whole thing reads like a smoked-honey old fashioned. Substantial, slightly strange, distinctly evening.
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.
