The Big Bad Cedar
Sage and clary sage open together with a sharp, camphoraceous herbal quality — clean but with a slight roughness.
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.
- Herbal70
- Earthy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Virginia Cedar
- Moss
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readSage and clary sage open together with a sharp, camphoraceous herbal quality — clean but with a slight roughness. Cardamom adds a mild warm-spicy edge that keeps it from reading as purely medicinal.
Virginia cedar takes the center, dry and pencil-shaving in character. The sage continues to weave through the heart, giving the cedar a greener, more aromatic frame than it would have alone.
Oakmoss and moss anchor the base with a cool, earthy, forest-floor quality. Cashmeran softens the exit slightly, adding a subtle woody warmth. The result is an austere, outdoorsy fragrance — spare in its construction, leaning heavily on the interplay between green herbs and raw cedar.
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.
